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...press conference chock-full of furrowed brows, misquoted facts and insincere serpentine smiles, President Bush tried hard to deflect blame for everything from the Sept. 11 attacks to Iraq’s missing WMDs. This press conference, only the third of his presidency, showed Americans a chief executive trying desperately to do damage control. But unanswered questions about WMDs and shifting justifications for the Iraq war, as well as the President’s general evasiveness, undercut the moral clarity and responsibility of a man Americans once chuckled at good-naturedly. By refusing to accept the slightest blame, or answer...
...press conference chock-full of furrowed brows, misquoted facts and insincere serpentine smiles, President Bush tried hard to deflect blame for everything from the Sept. 11 attacks to Iraq’s missing WMDs. This press conference, only the third of his presdency, showed Americans a chief executive trying desperately to do damage control. But unanswered questions about WMDs and shifting justifications for the Iraq war, as well as the President’s general evasiveness, undercut the moral clarity and responsibility of a man Americans once chuckled at good-naturedly. By refusing to accept the slightest blame, or answer...
Sophomore Jennifer Raimondi got her stick up in the air and was able to deflect the puck up into the upper right part of the net-extending Harvard’s lead to two goals...
Sophomore Jennifer Raimondi got her stick up in the air and was able to deflect the puck up into the upper right part of the net-extending Harvard’s lead to two goals...
Public outcry against Rajoy and his Popular Party compatriots seems to have been incited by Socialist officials who accused the government of lying about the progress of the investigation of the bombings. They insinuated that it was a maneuver to deflect criticism of its support for the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. And based on the thousands of protestors who turned up for last week’s election, the accusation certainly struck a chord with the populace...