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Corlette said much will depend on whether the 60 cell lines that Bush said exist are viable...
...tightening up controls on the sale of weapons or technologies that would improve the Iraqi war machine. Russia blocked the changes when the U.N. Security Council met to review sanctions against Iraq at the end of June, and the Arab neighbors on whom policing such "smart" sanctions would depend have been less than sanguine about the changes. Where Washington is pushing for revisions in the sanctions regime, most of its allies in the Arab world - under pressure from their own streets, which are far more hostile to the U.S. than to Saddam - would be quite content to abandon them altogether...
...with, and the war has made it worse. People have been grumbling that the government sold off its telecommunications company, but all the money from that privatization has now gone to the war effort. So the country is in a bad way economically, and cementing any peace may depend in large part on a package of economic...
...herself the more lofty role of "Mother Mega," soothing and caring for Indonesians who feel abandoned by the state. Millions of Indonesians have looked to her in precisely those terms. Now that she is their president, the Sukarno mythology won't be enough - her political survival now will depend on political skills she has not yet revealed...
...This may not be a great time to be touting the virtues of the stock market. Employees who depend on 401K's for much of their retirement have seen that nest eggs dramatically shrink this year because of the current bear market. Privatization critics also dispute the conventional wisdom that Social Security provides a low rate of return. It's not just a retirement program, they contend, but an insurance and disability program as well, and when you factor in all those potential long-term benefits, Social Security is a package few Wall Street houses could match...