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...testimony, Jackson arrived wearing his familiar surgical mask, which he removed when he took the stand, revealing sparse facial stubble and an unexplained bandage at the tip of his nose. On Day Two, Jackson arrived four hours late, this time shielding himself from the sun with an umbrella. The delay gave the judge time to call a news photographer into his chambers in response to a complaint by Jackson's lawyers, who said unflattering photos taken the previous day had upset their client. Perhaps Jackson's plastic surgeon should answer for that...
...Blix, 74, has been entrusted with judgment calls that could delay or hasten war. He downplays the difficulty of his job - knowing when Iraq is trying to thwart his inspectors, he says, will "be a matter of common sense." Until last week the closest Blix had come to Baghdad in recent years was the satellite photo of the Iraqi capital that dominates one wall of his spartan office at U.N. headquarters in New York. The space reflects both Blix's low-key personality as well as the fact that nobody took UNMOVIC that seriously until two months ago, when President...
Brosnan's eight-year delay helped him build a better Bond. Age weathered some of his pretty-boy sheen; a few more lines on his face, a touch more flesh at his jawline, and he began to look like a man who had survived a few too many fights and a few too many cocktails. By now, his fourth time in the role, "the part has become second nature in some respects," he says. "I've grown into it--or at least I'd like to think I have...
Following up a two-minute penalty for delay of game, Chu needed just five seconds off a faceoff to bring the game to a swift conclusion...
...absence of clear Iraqi noncompliance, the resolution will only delay the day when the Bush administration has to present the world with the choice many nations have sought to avoid—cooperate or consign yourself to irrelevancy. Believing that war is necessary, I don’t have a problem with that. But those who expect it to herald a new era of international relations will be disappointed...