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...into the hands of the extremists." But U.S. officials say they never intended to hand power over to these former opposition parties, and they privately criticize them for bickering over the makeup of the proposed interim government and failing to build popular support after Saddam's downfall. U.S. officials contend that Bremer's council will represent a broader cross-section of society and help pave the way for democratic elections...
...Romney has had to contend with plenty of politicians to put his proposed reforms of state government on the table...
...current arsenal consists largely of mammoth city-blasters that can't burrow underground where U.S. officials believe nations such as Iran and North Korea are assembling their own weapons of mass destruction. Moreover, Pentagon officials say, this arsenal is no longer an effective deterrent. Washington's enemies, they contend, calculate that the U.S. won't use its existing nuclear weapons because of the widespread carnage they would cause. But the new plans have their own detractors. They include nuclear scientist and Pentagon adviser Sidney Drell, who says that even a tiny 1-kiloton weapon exploding 15 meters deep in rock...
...radicals are in no mood to listen, having vowed to fight to keep their weapons. Hamas is far more popular now than it was in 1996 when Yasser Arafat's administration successfully cracked down on the organization to stop a wave of suicide bombing, and Abbas's has to contend with the fact that today, his own Fatah movement has a militant armed wing of its own, which has vowed to stand alongside the Islamists in defying disarmament. Add to that the fact of ongoing Israeli security operations stoking popular outrage among Palestinians, and the fact that Abbas...
...China's confusing regulations weren't troublesome enough, many businesspeople must also contend with red tape at their own corporations. One senior banker in Asia says all trips at his company now require the approval of two top-level executives. For good measure, employees returning from SARS-affected areas must quarantine themselves for 10 days?which his bank counts as vacation time...