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...national missile defense doesn’t just miss the mark when it comes to relatively sophisticated attacks from other countries. It also does nothing to combat America’s twenty-first-century threats. We have argued—since long before September 2001—that the billions of dollars squandered on a second Star Wars plan could be better spent shoring up defenses from actual terrorist threats than from intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). Sept. 11, 2001 showed that even a well-funded terrorist organization such as al Qaeda found it much more practical to attack...
...weaken as the U.S. government keeps spending money it doesn't have. Yet rising interest rates attract foreign investment and often buoy the dollar, which firmed noticeably after Greenspan's rate signal in late January. The buck may hold firm if, as seems logical, Europe cuts interest rates to combat slow growth. A steady dollar would remove the currency edge of foreign securities, which in dollar terms rose nearly twice as much as they did in local currencies last year. You should favor U.S. assets. As a hedge, hold some European stock or bond funds, which as rates decline overseas...
Mather House declared war on Kirkland during Primal Scream, Jan. 20, after concluding that Kirkland House had pilfered the Adams House gong. Mather residents organized their Department of War to combat what they call the “Kirkland brute” and help Adams retreive its gong...
...kind of shortened the bench to go to three lines to try to combat their speed because they had so much speed against us by stretching us out,” Leaman said. “I think that hurt us in the end because we really got tired, and we were having trouble getting to the loose pucks...
...thanks to the convergence of a prolonged war in Iraq, a presumptive Democratic nominee with a chestful of Vietnam combat medals and the eagerness of anti-Bush critics to sling accusations at the President, Bush's National Guard record is under scrutiny. It began with Michael Moore, the flamethrowing documentary filmmaker, labeling Bush a "deserter." Then Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic Party chairman, leveled the less serious AWOL charge...