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...easily achieved by giving the French oil rights in post-war Iraq and by paying off Russia the amount of money owed by Saddam—he could have prevented the U.N. coup. With no major world leaders challenging Bush, we would hear much less chatter from the protest types, mirroring the silence surrounding America’s interventions in Bosnia and Afghanistan...
...brief lull there was no fire from either side and the infantry began to slowly inch forward again. Almost immediately, they came under a fusillade of fire from a large white building on the far edge of the apartment complex. There was a brief moment of chatter on the radio: "We are taking heavy fire from our left." Close air support was already rolling in and an air Liaison officer on the ground was designating the new target...
...play"--meaning biological and chemical weapons. A senior Administration official says that telephone calls and e-mails exchanged between several suspected terrorists and intercepted by the U.S. and foreign intelligence agencies pointed to a plot inside the U.S. using nerve gas, poisons or radiological devices. "It wasn't just chatter," says Republican Senator Pat Roberts, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. "It was a pattern...
Both men also loved to think out loud, for hours at a stretch, during walks along the river Cam, at meals at the Cricks' flat, at the Eagle and, of course, in the lab, where their incessant chatter drove their colleagues crazy. (Watson and Crick were quickly relegated to a separate office, where they would disturb only each other.) Most important, both were as tenacious as pit bulls. Once they clamped their minds onto the problem of DNA structure, they couldn't let go until they solved it--or someone else got there first...
...latest upgrade to a "high" level of terrorism alert, announced after authorities picked up rising chatter about attacks against U.S. targets, had a certain inevitability. CIA Director George Tenet has been predicting, for months, a probable terrorist attack if we go to war with Iraq. Nearly half the American women polled in October by the Gallup Organization say they believe they or someone in their family will soon be victims of an attack (about a third of men do too). But polls don't convey the intensity of these fears. "When I was out campaigning last fall, this...