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...light of opposition to attacking the country by many key coalition partners, it may be some time before Washington is ready to go after Iraq. President Bush's warnings over weapons inspectors is certainly a signal that Washington plans to move the issue back to the front burner, but even there it may take months to build up the head of steam necessary to power a showdown. And administration officials moved quickly this week to nix expectations of any imminent move on Iraq...
...would take years, with full-time positions created through normal attrition as other part-time workers leave. Unlike a wage floor, which would become a non-issue as long as it is regularly adjusted for inflation, this plank of PSLM’s platform could stay on the front burner as long as there are part-time workers at Harvard...
CHEAP $1,050 HP PAVILION 7935 There are lower-priced machines but not many with this kind of high performance. Hewlett-Packard's best value includes a superfast 1.3-GHz AMD Athlon chip, Polk Audio speakers and a built-in CD burner. Better still, through Jan. 5, a $150 rebate on the PC-and-monitor combo pushes the system price down to a very merry $900. www.hpshopping.com...
EXPENSIVE $2,679 TOSHIBA PORTEGE 4000 Many lightweight laptops get that way by being stripped of cool features. Not this 4.5-lb. roadie, with its 750-MHz Pentium III, 256MB of RAM and 30GB hard drive, plus a combo DVD-drive/ CD-burner, built-in wireless networking and a long list of lesser perks. www.toshiba.com...
...then, in the far corner, there’s a six-burner Garland range from 1945. Much of Julia Child’s kitchen seems to be from another era, but seeing that piece of equipment truly feels like time travel. The Garland is a beauty. It’s big and black, a rugged old unit that looks about as solid as a steam locomotive...