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Admittedly, the Iowa caucus is the most painstaking, complicated form of democracy to exist outside a campus women's collective. Instead of walking into a voting booth, pulling the top lever for President and randomly yanking the rest of them like you're supposed to, the caucus is a three-hour Monday-night political dorkfest reserved for the kinds of people who get psyched about jury duty. In 2000, only 61,000 Iowans showed up to vote, and it's not as if there's a lot to do in Iowa in January...
...have not seen [a] smoking gun, concrete evidence about the connection, but I think the possibility of such connections did exist, and it was prudent to consider them at the time." COLIN POWELL, Secretary of State, in response to continued doubts about links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda, one of the reasons the Bush Administration cited for going...
Kerrigan says he's glad so many seniors are finding rejuvenation in scholarly work. "There were zero opportunities for my parents' generation," he says. "This is a new phenomenonthis sort of thing just simply didn't exist until recently. It's an outgrowth of lengthened life spans and intellectually engaged seniors...
...disease, but studies in support of this link have yet to be done. "Can we make the claim that having sex is equal to walking a mile or bicycling? We don't know," says Robert Friar, a biologist at Michigan's Ferris State University. "The data don't really exist...
...bond-interest payment in November, prompting tougher scrutiny of its books by Italian regulators and its own auditors. A follow-up audit produced a stunner: an account held by the company at Bank of America in New York City that supposedly contained about $5 billion turned out not to exist. All the paperwork, including written confirmation from the bank to Parmalat's auditors, had been forged, Bank of America said. "What is shocking here is that it appears the assets were just plain fabricated," says Evan D. Flaschen, an attorney at the U.S. law firm Bingham McCutchen, who represents institutional...