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...sticking to her routines--most important of all, school. She had taken just two days off and was eager to get back. "When I walked in, everyone spread out in two rows in the hallway, like I had food on my face or something," she says. During her brief hiatus, her classmates did nothing but talk about how they should act when she returned. A few offered clumsy condolences, likening her plight to that of a distant relative's dying. One friend said she knew exactly how Hilary felt because her parents were getting divorced. Someone thought the kids should...
...weaker than the U.S. alone. The President summed up his lead-a-lonely-but-moral-crusade approach to foreign policy in April when he was asked whether he understood that Palestinians consider the Israeli occupation to be a form of terrorism. The context for his statement was a brief period in which Bush suspended his pro-Israel tilt and tried to act as an honest broker between both sides in the conflict, calling on Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to halt Israel's incursion into the West Bank. That's when he said, "Look...
...winning? At this point Newman is just fighting for the right to keep on fighting, and by that standard she is doing pretty well. On July 31, Judge Mukasey summoned both sides to his chambers and asked them to file briefs expanding and clarifying their points of view. Newman's brief is due on Sept. 13--a Friday. It's a victory of sorts: Mukasey could have dismissed the matter on the spot or had it moved to South Carolina, but he didn't. The hearing also had a surprise special guest: Principal Deputy Solicitor General Paul Clement, a conservative...
...Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin's rightist government completed its fourth full month in office last week, it continues to shy away from many of the reforms it once promised to impose. Analysts have stopped counting all the contradictions, policy pirouettes and public climb-downs that have punctuated its brief reign. Raffarin and his neo-Gaullist boss?President Jacques Chirac?benefit from near-complete conservative domination of the French political system, but you wouldn't know it from their policies. That has led traditional allies like Seillière and other business leaders to lament the lost opportunity?a chance...
...Your brief report on hunters who may have died from a version of mad-cow disease, "Deadly Feast: Can Venison Kill You?" [Science, Aug. 12], should rightly have been titled "Bambi Gets Even!" I've argued in the past that hunting is not a sport, because if it were, both sides would be comparably matched. But now perhaps it truly can be called a sport--with both hunters and prey having an equal opportunity to kill each other. CHERIE TRAVIS Downers Grove...