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...mail to the House, Wang expressed concern for Mather’s delay in sending out recent advisories...
...time to kick our fear habit. For instance, New Yorkers are, by and large, not scared. For some reason the people of New York seem a lot more confident and a lot less fearful about terrorism than people from Bush’s red states. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas was afraid to simply sleep in Manhattan for the upcoming Republican National Convention in New York this September; instead, he planned to charter a cruise shop docked in the Hudson River for himself and his fellow right-wingers. Though the plan was recently dropped due to mounting criticism...
...Saddam was almost a forgotten enemy by the time he was caught. The U.S. delay in restoring Iraq's infrastructure and rule of law has resulted in a wave of sporadic terrorist attacks and created a new enemy that may be even more difficult to subdue than Saddam. Until normality returns to their country, there will be no victory for the people of Iraq. Li Lian Lau Singapore...
Watching Dean on the stump these past few weeks, I tried to remember the last Democratic politician who was so joyously vituperative. (Pat Buchanan was the last Republican.) Suddenly, as Dean ranted one evening about "Washington bureaucrats like George W. Bush and Tom DeLay who want to dictate to your local school boards," I realized that he reminded me of George Wallace--a liberal version, to be sure, and without the theatrical racism. But Wallace was about a lot more than racism. He was about the inanities of Washington, the "pointy-headed intellectuals who can't park their bicycles straight...
...positive tests that initially suggested this was a SARS case. Some Guangdong officials interpret as disrespectful the WHO's unwillingness to confirm their labs' findings. The WHO, which has no laboratories of its own and relies on collaborating institutions, has been unclear as to why it is delaying its diagnosis. It is, however, acting as if it is the only organization in the world allowed to confirm a SARS case. At what point, though, will waiting for a WHO diagnosis cause a critical delay? The work of responding to individual cases and making diagnoses must ultimately be the responsibility...