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...Just how clever is Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, the intellectual godfather of the war on Iraq? The memo he signed on Dec. 5 makes you wonder. The paper fleshed out for the public who is eligible to win prime contracts, funded by $18.6 billion of U.S. tax money, to rebuild Iraq's infrastructure and supply its new army. Only firms from supportive nations can bid, which rules out those from antiwar countries like Russia, Germany, France and Canada. In its tact, timing and logic, the memo is a disaster. It was released just as the Bush Administration was launching...
They line the dusty roads outside the tiny villages of China's Henan province, several hours' drive from Beijing--mounds of dirt funneled into crudely shaped cones, like a phalanx of earthen bamboo hats. To the uninitiated, they look like a clever new way of turning over fields--an agricultural innovation, perhaps, meant to increase crop yields. But the locals know the truth. Buried under the pyramids, which now number in the thousands, are their mothers and fathers, brothers, sisters and cousins, all victims of AIDS. Like silent sentries, the dirt graves are a testament to China's worst-kept...
...demonstrations surrounding the meeting between Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair provided a perfect illustration of a clever hypocrisy being practiced by the heads of both countries. For the Stop the War Coalition to have assembled hundreds of thousands of people in London to demonstrate peacefully on a weekday was no mean achievement, yet the Bushes were able to truthfully claim that they had hardly been aware of any protests. This was possible only because British authorities ensured that the demonstrators were kept out of the Bushes' range. And then, having cleverly outfoxed the protesters, the politicians added salt...
...latest news about Dr. Phil, however, isn’t a new and clever piece of hard-assed wisdom; instead, it concerns the growing popularity of his son Jay McGraw. The development adds nepotism to a list of issues of authority and expertise among writers whose wisdom doesn’t extend beyond the college years...
...Unit’s not living up to their urban bandit persona, they’re patting themselves on the back with shoutouts that become sickeningly congratulatory. Yes, the crew does get a little stale after a while, though Tony Yayo, who is currently incarcerated, provides the latest viciously clever installment in the 50 Cent-vs.-Ja Rule rivalry with the last track, which is a direct insult to the other rapper...