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...When administration officials made their case against Iraq, their primary casus belli was the store of forbidden weapons of mass destruction that Saddam was allegedly hiding. "Iraq continues to conceal quantities, vast quantities, of highly lethal material and [the] weapons to deliver it," Colin Powell intoned during his presentation at the United Nations in February. After two months of looking, U.S. forces have yet to turn up any quantity of WMD, vast or otherwise, which explains why Fleischer and his counterparts at the State and Defense departments rarely mention Saddam's illegal weapons unless asked by reporters. In another recalibration...
...Whatever challenges confront the new press secretary - who is likely to be Fleischer's deputy, Scott McClellan - they will all be framed in the context of the approaching 2004 election. Always nervous that the president's official duties will seem politically motivated, the White House wants to conceal any outward appearance of striving for victory while working robustly behind the scenes to do just that. No one will have to maintain this balance more than the new resident behind the podium. In 2000, Bush's team tried to keep the press at bay, much as it does in the White...
...shown in theaters. That is enough. There is no need to further the exaltation of a serious sex offender who has not even had the decency to confront the consequences of his actions—instead, he has shirked the law and used the guise of movie genius to conceal his repugnant actions...
That will take some doing. Across China's capital last week, officials went to extraordinary lengths to conceal SARS patients from WHO inspectors. A doctor at the No. 309 People's Liberation Army Hospital says 46 patients were pulled out of their beds and moved to a hotel on the hospital grounds just before the WHO team got there. At the No. 302 People's Liberation Army Hospital, where two wards had been filled to capacity, only a handful of the ailing were on site for the WHO visit...
...Like their big-city counterparts, provincial doctors have also succumbed to political pressure to conceal information about the dangers of the virus. At a secret meeting last Wednesday overheard by a TIME reporter, Dr. Zhang Hanwei, the director of the Shanxi Provincial People's Hospital in Taiyuan, began his speech by berating the 40 or so embattled doctors gathered before him. Other regions afflicted by SARS were reporting only a 4% mortality rate. But Shanxi, then with an official tally of 82 cases and 7 deaths, was reporting an 8.5% death rate. "The government is very unsatisfied with these numbers...