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After weeks of pressure to explain what it knew about the alleged weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq before launching the war there, the Bush Administration has placed the issue in CIA Director George Tenet's lap. Administration officials have been subtly pointing the finger in his direction, saying all their knowledge of Iraq's weapons programs came from Tenet's agency. That apparently didn't apply to a British intelligence report, cited by President Bush in his State of the Union speech, that claimed Iraq had tried to purchase uranium from an unnamed nation later identified as Niger...
...officials responsible for secretly assessing - and now at all costs finding - Iraq's weapons of mass destruction are gearing up for another week of finger-pointing.?? CIA Director George Tenet may appear later this week before a closed-door session of the Senate Intelligence Committee, a U.S. official told TIME,?to answer questions about whether his agency overestimated Iraq's chemical and biological warfare programs...
...Jayson Blair was busted for plagiarism and fabrications--and then its star writer Rick Bragg was suspended and quit after claiming an intern's reporting as his own--the media lit up like the switchboard of a gossipy small town. Reporters investigated reporters. The Times newsroom erupted in finger pointing. Journalism professors raised themselves up on their suede elbow patches to tsk-tsk. Newspapers worriedly reviewed their policies. Collectively, we agonized: Will the public ever trust us again...
...beautiful, shimmering, very romantic, but cold,” she says. In a moment that she describes as “nervous,” Stoltz got down on his knees, took off Levenson’s glove and slid an actual engagement ring onto her finger. The two will wed in a civil ceremony this September...
...Prime Minister Tony Blair resolutely backs Bush's call for closer relations with Washington, "old" Europeans, led by French President Jacques Chirac, want Europe to be an alternative - and often opposing - power center. And a new TIME/CNN poll conducted by TNS in Britain, Germany and France suggests Chirac's finger is closer to Europe's pulse - 37% of those polled said he best represents the views of most Europeans on U.S.-E.U. relations. Only 18% said Blair fit that description. Blair can comfort himself with the knowledge that Britons are more optimistic about the future than their neighbors...