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...which is it? Is the CIA politicizing the intelligence on Iraq to help the hard-liners persuade people that war is in the national interest? Or is Tenet, a former Senate staff member with keen survival instincts, working to keep the moderates happy too? Tenet denies both charges. "It's ludicrous," he told TIME. "I work for a guy who expects our honest judgment, period. There's no cooking of the books...
...Today Yen is teaching ballet and is engaged to Hai. She is keen to act again. But if this Vietnamese Cinderella never does another film, she can always remember the day she traded her ballet slipper for a glass...
...nursed back to health, despite badly injured feet and legs. Then in July, he was released into the wild, outfitted with a radio collar to monitor his movements. But just weeks later, the radio signals stopped. A local park warden believes that Baba was killed, probably by a hunter keen for such a rare trophy. For centuries, the Iberian lynx has been an exotic part of the region's ecosystem. But now a deadly combination of habitat destruction and lack of food threatens the big cats' survival. Earlier this month, the World Conservation Union (I.U.C.N.) upgraded the lynx's status...
...Iraqis do not cooperate. TIME: If the Security Council fails to agree, will you go anyway? ElBaradei: The worst is to go with a divided Council behind you. TIME: How cooperative are the Iraqis so far? ElBaradei: They are aware of the implications of not cooperating and are very keen that we go back. But we need to test these commitments. TIME: How long will it take to determine if there is a real nuclear threat? ElBaradei: Within four months we will have at least a plan of what needs to be done. But we don't know how long...
...make that promise?" asks Manouchehr Takin of the Centre for Global Energy Studies. "Iraq is a sovereign state, and just because Saddam was in power when these deals were made doesn't mean they're invalid." Yet Takin believes that after any war with Iraq, U.S. firms would be keen to fight for new deals and renegotiate old ones. And no one is taking bets on who would win that war. THE RACING BUSINESS Reinventing The Formula Fast racehorses are handicapped - given extra weight to carry - so why not Formula One race cars? Last week the sport's supremo, Bernie...