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Supporting a call for new U.N. weapons inspections in Iraq is tricky ground for President Bush, and some of his more hawkish advisers have made no secret of their disdain for the idea. Vice President Cheney warned this week that Saddam has mastered the art of confounding the inspection regime, and argued that renewed U.N. inspections could create a dangerous "false comfort" over Iraq's weapons programs. But Secretary of State Colin Powell has been a strong advocate of demanding that Iraq submit to renewed inspections, along with such key international allies as Britain's prime minister Tony Blair. President...
...prevailing theory is that Iraqi officials killed Abu Nidal, 65, or encouraged one of his Palestinian lieutenants to do so. In ridding themselves of their former hired gun, a man who never could be trusted, the Iraqis could have been trying to undermine U.S. criticism by demonstrating a disdain for terrorism. "Abu Nidal joined the Iraqi early-retirement program," says Dan Schueftan, a lecturer at the Israeli Defense College...
...times he'd junk this anarch's mission, Disdain sprung rhythm, embrace tradition, And with resolve as firm as Priam's, He'd versify in four-foot iambs...
...former custodians of the Hotel Flamboyan in Baucau, the picturesque seaside town on East Timor's northeast coast, had a lot to learn about hotel management. Here, during East Timor's darkest days under Indonesian rule, paying guests were treated with disdain by staff dressed in combat fatigues and carrying M-16s and hand grenades. This was an Indonesian military facility that had kept its fa?ade as a hotel to mask its real function as a place to detain, interrogate, torture and sometimes kill Timorese sympathizers of the pro-independence movement...
...naming him, Logan has a strong track record in attracting and retaining subscribers, selling advertising and reorganizing muddled management structures. "There are smart, talented people scattered throughout AOL," Logan says. "But I think the structure has been holding them back a little bit." And for all the disdain the techies at AOL might be expected to have for him, some will be surprised to learn that he began his career as one of them. A pure-math major at Auburn, he worked his way through school as a computer programmer for NASA. He's not a Luddite...