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...miss, but when they hit, you feel them in your gut. And each film has at least one shining moment, whether it be flatulent cowboys or synchronized-swimming nuns. A big disappointment: no Brooks commentaries. The collection is incomplete without a juicy vat of pinwheeling ad libs from the foremost tummler--sorry, raconteur--of our time...
...affairs" and "impose models of social development." Moscow and Beijing, it seems, have come a long way since the Cold War when, despite their common commitment to Communism, the two had a longstanding rivalry that was eagerly exploited by the U.S. Today, their strategic alliance is based first and foremost on doing business - China wants to increase its consumption of Russian oil and natural gas exports, and much of that growing Chinese defense budget about which Rice complained will be spent on Russian weaponry. But it also appears to dictate a common geopolitical agenda whose objectives include restraining U.S. power...
LAWRENCE B. WILKERSON I'm principally a strategist, and from that perspective the war has been a disaster. First, the foremost winner has been Iran: it rid itself of its greatest threat, Saddam and his military, without firing a shot; won the Dec. 15 Iraq elections; owns the south, particularly Basra; and has felt the freedom to elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who, in turn, has felt the freedom to reclaim leadership of radical Islam, leadership Osama bin Laden claimed on 9/11. Second, the foremost loser--after Iraq itself--has been Israel, whose leaders must now fear more than ever...
...warrant requirement,” HUPD spokesman Steven G. Catalano wrote in an e-mail. “The decision to search is made in compliance with federal and state law and is decided on a fact- and incident- specific basis. The preservation of constitutional protections is always foremost in the decision to search or not to search.”In all three recent cases, students acknowledged that they allowed officers to enter their rooms, but the scope of this consent could have been limited by the means officers used to obtain this consent.Harvard Law School?...
Sadowsky, a professor at the University of Minnesota's department of soil, water and climate, is one of the world's foremost experts on tracking the sources of E. coli, the bacterium most commonly responsible for beach closures. E. coli is found in abundance in human fecal matter and represents a significant health threat, which is why the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency requires that E. coli levels in public waters be closely monitored. E. coli also grows in the guts of geese, cows and other animals, but the disease risk from nonhuman fecal bacteria is considerably lower...