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That is not what happened. In a particularly rough first 100 days, Powell went against Administration grain on Iraq and North Korea. He wanted American armed forces to continue Balkans peacekeeping; others thought it needlessly stretched the military too thin. Powell was blindsided when the Administration, without warning, disavowed the Kyoto protocol on global warming. Other officials stressed do-it-our-way; Powell sought cooperation...
...hour to write this. It is useless work. But I'm quite happy about rhyming greasy with Assisi. Happiness is in the details. An indolent man awakes in the morning and thinks, "Wow. A shower with shampoo with aloe in it. Then orange juice not made from concentrate. Seven-grain toast with butter. Jamaican coffee. One Across: A waitress (slang)," and he gets all giddy and happy...
...mindset that you’re going to read every last book on the list, you’ll end up driving yourself crazy. I don’t mean to suggest that you neglect your classes—just that you take the reading lists with a grain of salt...
...religious activities." But Wakil Ahmad Mutawakil warned that more aid agencies, including the U.N. World Food Program (WFP), might be implicated in the investigation into Christian proselytizing. WFP described the allegations as "baseless" and said it had never been involved in propagating religion anywhere. TAJIKISTAN No Rain, No Grain A two-year drought has left a million people facing starvation in the former Soviet Union's poorest country. Launching an appeal for international aid, the Red Cross said that children were scavenging ratholes in wheat fields in search of grain, after crops failed. More than 80% of Tajiks live below...
...survey, which included 1,792 adults, took place over July 5-9 - well into the current economic downturn (or correction, depending upon which newscast you favor). And that brings us to one of the many reasons to take the results with a grain of salt: Does the national economic forecast affect worker satisfaction? Probably. Skeptics will also point out that the country?s largest and most powerful union organizer has a vested interest in eliciting dissatisfied responses from employees...