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...brisk tone of Caley's journal offers little praise for his surroundings. The names he bestows along the way - the Devil's Wilderness, Dismal Dingle (a valley "like a coal-pit"), Dark Valley - hint at his impressions. When his men spotted two crows, they joked that the birds must be lost, "or else they would never stop in such a place as this." Climbing in the heat through one windless gully after another, pushing through prickly scrub amid leeches, flies and furious ants, sweaty and smeared with charcoal from burned trees, it's understandable why he spent little time...
...come up with indicators of success?and of failure?for any risky venture. To date, evaluation of the talks has been unburdened by performance measures. Look for that to change in the coming year, with Washington explaining more clearly to its partners how it will be assessing progress. (Hint to China: paying Pyongyang?again?just to show up won't count in the "success" column.) Don't be surprised if Washington publicly declares this diplomatic investment a write...
...with indolence and everything to do with rigor, and Robinson, 60, says she feels little need to apologize for it. "I have always been doing things that felt very necessary from the point of view of the integrity of my work," she says, with only the slightest hint of irritation. "So other people will just have to look out for themselves...
...varied backgrounds of the suspects hint at the scale of the problem. Among those arrested was a Queensland man alleged to have been using local children to make his own pornography; also under investigation were four Queensland police officers, one of whom killed himself after being served with a summons. A New South Wales teacher allegedly set up a video camera behind a mirror in a children's changing room; in Victoria the owner of three child-care centers was charged; and in Perth detectives discovered more than 350,000 images and hundreds of videotapes of child pornography...
...Ghraib prison scandal and after the tempest over WMD claims in the State of the Union address, so the last thing Bush wanted was a credibility fight. "We couldn't challenge their veracity because then people would challenge ours," says Bartlett. A softer defense was hatched: Bartlett would hint that the alleged new evidence was being pushed by the President's political enemies but would stick to the talking points: Bush had been honorably discharged...