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...been to avoid meddling in politics, would really blast the Prime Minister so fiercely that Blair would have to resign. Blair's own aides seem to agree. And certainly Hutton had many other legitimate targets to choose from, including the BBC and Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon. But the brisk rectitude Hutton displayed through months of hearings kept open the possibility of a body blow that could force Blair from office. But Blair has never been one to wait for blows to land. In speeches and on TV and radio, he hammered home the virtues of his bill, and by implication...
...passionately they feel about their President. In August, KB Toys rolled out its George W. Bush Elite Force Aviator doll, a 12-in. action figure in full naval flight gear. At $39.99, it has set the sales record for collectible action figures on KB's website. There's also brisk traffic on the Web for donations in memory of Sally Baron, 71, of northern Wisconsin, and Gertrude M. Jones, 81, of Mandeville, La. Obituaries for both women contained requests that money be sent to any organization working for the removal of Bush from office. And in Jefferson County, Colo., West...
...Affable and self-effacing, Matsui certainly has the quickest smile east of Yokohama. On this brisk, autumn afternoon in downtown Tokyo, he wears it with a black velvet blazer, a black silk shirt and the gold peace medallion his wife, Mio, gave him in October for his 28th birthday...
After three and a third years here, very little has changed. I still love walking alone through the Yard on a brisk fall morning—late morning, anyway—with crunchy leaves underfoot and a deep blue sky overhead. And while I don’t get into Boston nearly as often as I would like, I still head into town as much as I can for dinner or a movie, just to feel plugged in with the real world, however trite it sounds in theory—and, indeed, however trite it is in practice. Boston remains...
Still, prospects look better than they have in many months. Forecasters expect the economy to keep growing at a brisk 4% pace through next year, which supports predictions that payrolls will add jobs at a rate of about 100,000 per month. Even in some hobbled industries, job postings are already ticking up. Want ads for the financial-services sector jumped 49% for the six months through September at career website Monster.com and rose 39% for jobs relating to computer software...