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...action against Saddam in the U.N., they thought, would come only if the Security Council was convinced that the U.S. would go it alone if it had to; inspections would work only if they were backed up by a credible threat of force if Saddam did not come clean on his weapons. After Bush's speech, Powell and his team set about drafting a text--Security Council Resolution 1441--that would promise Saddam "serious consequences," meaning war, if he passed up a last chance to disarm. The negotiations were tough. The French were determined that if Iraq was found...
...arrive at this pass? Saddam, after all, built a spectacular career out of survival. Perhaps his luck simply ran out: in the current President Bush, he may have met an adversary even more single-mindedly determined than he is. Still, Saddam could have saved his regime by coming completely clean on his weapons-of-mass-destruction program. He could have saved himself by giving up political power. Other modern strongmen staring at a similar fate, from the Shah of Iran to Congo's Mobutu Sese Seko, have done it, and Saddam was suspected of stashing away enough secret wealth...
...Asia and beyond, however, the exported and willfully internalized American dream has been punctured by months of failed and feckless diplomacy, by the Bush Administration's disregard for international opinion and now by sandstorms, alleged errant missiles and the fact that war is rarely quick and never clean. Last month in Yogyakarta, Indonesia's intellectual center, numerous students told me that yes, they would like to work in the U.S.?because there were no jobs at home, not because they admired America. Religious and community leaders expressed anger toward the Bush Administration?not, they stressed, at the American people...
...kilo. "When I first started, I figured I would eat it myself if no one else wanted any," says Ackler, who looks more like a surfer than a Mister Softee. But considering the popularity of his artisan ices, Ackler won't need to lick the bowl clean himself for a long time to come...
Moore worked tirelessly throughout, finding both time and space when there was little of either to be had against the stifling Cornell defense. At last, Moore was rewarded at 8:04 of the third period, when he picked Mark McRae’s pocket clean, spun in the slot and beat LeNeveu to tie the game...