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...well be that Blair's most telling disclosure has already been made. Before Christmas, he told the BBC that he would have gone to war even if he had known that former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction, conceding that "you would have had to use and deploy different arguments about the nature of the threat." Perhaps he will go further when he appears before the inquiry, but I wouldn...
...infamous terrorist organization. Al-Qaeda, which means "the base," is named for its position at the foot of a high, rugged mountain range in western Yemen. Still, residents joke that having Al-Qaeda in your passport makes it impossible to get a visa. And in a country better known as Osama bin Laden's ancestral homeland, the site of the U.S.S. Cole bombing in 2000 and, most recently, the alleged training ground for underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the coincidence is lost on no one. (See pictures of the life of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab...
...decades after World War II, when America was assuming its new role as the center of the known universe, Eero Saarinen was the man who supplied it with an architecture suited to the place where the future happened. For the marquee names of American capitalism - General Motors, IBM, CBS - he designed buildings that were more than just corporate facilities. They were signposts for modernity, theirs and the nation's. For New York City and Washington, Saarinen provided airport terminals that were symbols of the excitement and glamour of air travel. (It was once possible to think of air travel that...
...They glint with a steely resolve when he thinks of a way to prolong the lives of his ailing kids. And when he fights to bring a crucial medication to fruition, viewers' eyes may mist up a bit as well. Such is the emotive impact of the movie genre known as the true-life inspirational...
...thing is, I already ignore all these (relatively minor) indicators. I had been hoping to learn I could skip GDP or the employment report. I should have known that professional forecasters wouldn't forgo real data. As Mark Zandi of Moody's Economy.com put it in an e-mail, "I cherish all economic indicators...