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...with a bang and came out with a whimper." Accusing Powell of following up America's bombing of the Baghdad radars (a good thing) with easing sanctions on Saddam (a bad thing), it sneered that his aim seems to be to figure out "how the United States can best bow to pressure from the Arab world." Equally bad, he "gave the Israelis a slap in the face" by telling them they should pay the $54 million in taxes owed to the Palestinian Authority. It concluded, "If Mr. Powell was trying to renew a friendship with an old ally through these...
...U.S.S. Greeneville rocketed blindly from the deep like a 6,900-ton black torpedo, spewing ocean foam as its bow rose more than 30 m out of the Pacific and crushed the Japanese fishing boat Ehime Maru. "Jesus!" exclaimed Commander Scott Waddle from the attack sub's control room, as his vessel shuddered around him. "What the hell was that?" Some 30 sailors and civilians, crammed into the Greeneville's control room, watched in horror as Waddle brought the periscope around to reveal what they had just done: a television screen displaying the periscope's view suddenly filled with...
...U.S.S. Greeneville rocketed blindly from the deep like a 6,900-ton black torpedo, spewing ocean foam as its bow rose more than 100 ft. out of the Pacific and crushed the Japanese fishing boat Ehime Maru. "Jesus!" exclaimed Commander Scott Waddle from the attack sub's control room, as his vessel shuddered around him. "What the hell was that?" Some 30 sailors and civilians, crammed into the Greeneville's control room, watched in horror as Waddle brought the periscope around to reveal what they had just done: a television screen displaying the periscope's view suddenly filled with...
...centerpiece of the Bush budget, of course, is the $1.6 trillion tax cut, and the rest of the government must bow down to it. Tuesday night, Bush will likely focus on the core of the plan he sent to the Hill earlier this month - the across-the-board marginal rate cuts - because the rest of it is up for negotiation, and anyway, the size is more important than the details...
...none of that mattered to the Crimson on Saturday. The Big Green had taken the torch from the Crimson by force, and Harvard showed that it is not going to bow out graciously and pave the way for Dartmouth's path to the championship...