Word: dicey
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President Bush warned last week that any Iraqi troops who followed orders to use weapons of mass destruction would be "pursued and punished." But the Pentagon is not counting on deterrence alone. Bombing chemical and biological sites would be dicey, however, since blasted facilities could spew poisons hundreds of miles downwind, potentially over U.S. troops or Iraqi civilians. So the U.S. military is weighing the wisdom of attacking deeply buried facilities with "agent defeat" weapons designed to produce a heat so intense it kills the spores in biological weapons and breaks down the poisons in chemical weapons. This would keep...
...surprise, since from its inception it had been consumed by bickering within the LPF, its second-biggest member. With a populist program grounded largely in public fascination for Fortuyn, its founder, who was murdered just nine days before elections last May, the LPF's survival was always dicey. The end came with the unseemly ministerial spat in which Heinsbroek, a flamboyant recording-industry executive who affects a chauffeured Bentley just as Fortuyn did, called Bomhoff a "moron." Bomhoff, a brittle former professor of economics, countered by calling Heinsbroek a "lunatic." They both resigned, bringing down the coalition with them. Balkenende...
...eavesdropper to sleep. Dutt asks about a promised mobile phone connection (which he could well afford on his own). He complains about the chronic tardiness of fellow star Govinda, who appeared with Dutt?and Bedi?in the 2001 film Jodi No. 1. The tape is pure verbal gargle, but dicey for Dutt: Shakeel is a wanted criminal who had been sheltered by India's archenemy, Pakistan...
...proud of the way our players responded to this pressure situation,” Harvard Coach Gordon Graham said. “It was a dicey situation. But the players responded like champs and really took it to their opponents in convincing, aggressive style...
Person of the Week OFFSIDE Dicey finances, hints of bribery, a financial collapse?FIFA president Sepp Blatter might have done well at Enron. Though he says all's well with football's ruling body, many in the sport see the launch of an internal investigation into FIFA's finances as tantamount to a yellow card for Blatter...