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...little guilty about our confidence. It sets us apart from the country at large just now; it even stirs a certain loneliness. We remember Sept. 11, and how cut off we felt with no white jet trails in the vast blue sky, no UPS trucks on the long dirt roads and only our satellite dishes and computers connecting us to whoever was still out there...
...without official acquiescence. Al-Zarqawi's alleged poisons camp, however, is located in northern Iraq, which is under Kurdish rule, not Saddam's control. After Powell's speech, officials of Ansar al-Islam, a militant Kurdish group that includes veterans of al-Qaeda camps, escorted journalists to a ramshackle dirt encampment in the village of Serget whose layout appeared to match Powell's satellite photo. Reporters were allowed to wander freely and found only living quarters and a radio station. But Fareed Asasard, head of the Kurdistan Strategic Studies Center and a top official in the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan...
Benjamin Netanyahu bounced into the dirt lot outside another polling station in his armored Chevrolet Suburban. Israel's former Prime Minister climbed confidently out into a crowd of voters gathered in this blue-collar town hard by Tel Aviv's airport. A few began singing a Hasidic song: "Messiah, Messiah." In a stronghold of the Likud Party that Netanyahu used to head, that seemed no exaggeration. It is the hard-line nationalism of the Likud and its likely right-wing coalition partners that these people want, and Foreign Minister Netanyahu is the man they think best suited to sell...
...everyone's mind: Why are you still single? Or put another way: What the hell's wrong with you? One guy speaks only to my cleavage. Another mistakes the event for speed ranting and spends the interval complaining about his job. Three minutes with a man who smells like dirt and sulphur is an eternity. Of the seven men that I date, there are two I would like to get to know better. It would be three, but I scare off the cop with the sweet smile when I enthusiastically ask how many dead bodies he's seen. Well...
...country and the U.N. Security Council fully in favor of U.S. military action against Saddam. Or, if Secretary of State Powell is unable to prove Bush's claims in his trip to the U.N. next week the new allegations may seem like desperate attempts to come up with any dirt that will work and undo the support the president rallied tonight...