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...change in U.S. foreign policy. President Bush made a start by replacing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. The President should have followed that by removing John Bolton from his post as U.N. ambassador. Bush also ought to re-evaluate U.S. foreign policy toward Israel. How can the Bush Administration claim to be waging a war on terrorism when the U.S. supports the Israeli government's actions in the Palestinian territories and actively blocks any attempt by the U.N. to thwart them? Rory Morty Giessen, Germany The Iraqi people have squandered their liberation from Saddam Hussein's dictatorship. Religious fanaticism, political...
...Although both the Crimson (11-2-0, 9-1-0 ECAC) and the Huskies (11-4-1, 7-1-1 Hockey East) still hold first place in their respective leagues, UConn got the better of Harvard, seizing upon the Crimson’s lack of energy to claim a victory.“We’re basically everyone’s biggest game on the schedule, and they were obviously looking forward to playing us, so absolutely they definitely stepped up their game,” captain Jennifer Sifers said. “I think we were caught...
...then, Tony Snow, the White House, and the leadership of Iraq all fall outside the definition of “reasonable person.” And when Snow dealt with the question of terminology at the Oct. 20 White House press briefing, his defense against Fearon’s claim was less than persuasive: “I think the general notion is a civil war is when you have people who use the American Civil War or other civil wars as an example, where people break up into clearly identifiable feuding sides clashing for supremacy...
...Then, of course, there's money. NASA's budget is currently about $17 billion a year, with no increase in sight. The agency insists that's sufficient to build the base, a claim that should become easier to believe after 2010, when the shuttles are mothballed and the space station is done and we quit throwing money into two programs that have long been revenue sinks. The agency hopes to woo international partners too, but after the bust of the space station - a U.S.-led but multi-national progra - it may not be so easy to make the sale...
...accused the government of rigging the vote in the two previous elections. Supermarket shelves in the capital had been emptied last week in anticipation of chaos sparked by a contested election result. Instead, the streets of Caracas were quiet on Monday. The opposition may finally be abandoning the claim that Chavez can stay in power only by cheating. "The truth is that even with a tighter margin we recognize that today they defeated us," Rosales said Sunday night. "But we'll keep fighting...