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...have been a factor in the space-shuttle disaster--but also a feature asking blond lawyers the burning question, Is Legally Blonde 2 true to life? (Answer: It totally is, kind of!) But in general, USA Today does better than ever a hard thing that looks easy--making news brief but not dumb--through efficient, informed stories that lay out the facts without calling attention to themselves...
...Later, before taking media questions alongside Blair, Bush made a brief speech that largely echoed his prewar phrases, although in the past tense: "Saddam Hussein produced and possessed chemical and biological weapons, and was trying to reconstitute his nuclear weapons program," Bush said, adding that "The regime of Saddam Hussein was a grave and growing threat." But the President and his British counterpart are encountering a growing torrent of skepticism over their prewar assessments because, three months after the coalition occupied Iraq, so little evidence has emerged to back those claims. Both men found themselves referring instead to Saddam...
...allure since the benchmark Genentech ipo 23 years ago has been its promise to deliver wonder drugs that will cure feared ailments like cancer and Alzheimer's; compared to that, budgetary discipline seems pretty dull. Yet with an exhaustingly long list of failed products and failed companies in its brief past, the biotech industry each year grows closer to losing sway with the moneymen who fund its research. Even though biotech stocks have been moving up this year, among critical pre-ipo investors like venture-capital funds "there's a lot of fear," says Alan Crane, ceo of Momenta Pharmaceuticals...
...speech, which was followed by a brief question-and-answer period, proposed a new model for partnerships in the Middle East in the aftermath of the war in Iraq—one that “incorporates conflict resolution, dialogue and eventually reconciliation...
...Summers’ presentation of a poster-sized $475,000 Harvard check to the city of Boston in support of the Boston Youth Fund and the Harvard After School Initiative (HASI), a group of 16 organizations offering educational programs for local youth. The event—which featured brief speeches from Summers and Menino—centered on Tenacity, an after-school and summer program combining free tennis lessons with reading-skill development...