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...choice for the secret CIA mission: he had been a diplomat in Niger in the '70s and had been the last U.S. envoy to meet Saddam before George H.W. Bush began the liberation of Kuwait in 1991. The yellowcake story was tantalizing to hard-liners because it backed their hunch that Saddam had been trying to acquire the makings of a nuclear weapon. But after an eight-day trip, Wilson concluded that the yellowcake claims were bogus. Throughout the summer of 2002, hard-liners ignored his findings and touted the tale anyway. Tenet and the CIA tried to shoot down...
...Salsgiver hunch worked—he, senior Ryan Tsujikawa and captain Barry Wahlberg combined to allow only two hits the rest of the way—but Pauly surrendered only one hit in the final seven innings...
...position was that of a fair number of Harvard students who decided to rally against military action in Afghanistan. One fellow Dunster House resident, for example, sewed a peace sign on his backpack along with the message “God Bless Afghanistan.” Call it a hunch, but I feel like something was missing from this student’s political outlook. As for his moral outlook, well, let me just say that I’m glad no one close to me died that day—otherwise, I’m not sure...
...peril. "The mood changes," says Claire Gorfinkel, who co-chairs Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace, a Pasadena, Calif., coalition with a 1,000-member mailing list. At rallies and marches, Gorfinkel says, passersby are less willing to flash peace signs and honk car horns. "My hunch is that there will be a reassessment on a broad scale throughout society for a period of time, a pendulum swing, if you will...
...Hofmann, senior vice president of marketing. So Simmons placed a 66-in.-wide platform on the 60-in. queen box spring, making room for a wider mattress dubbed the Olympic Queen. Hofmann believes the model has fueled an 8% growth in sales of his firm's larger mattresses. His hunch that Americans need more room in the sack is borne out by industry figures. Although the trend has not been directly linked to the fattening of America, between 1997 and 2001 the U.S. market share for queen-size mattresses has grown from 31% to 34%, while king sizes...