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...maintaining a system of alliances to deter, contain and, if necessary, confront them requires leading on the soft issues as well as the hard. It means recognizing that there is not only a U.S. agenda but a global one, and advancing the former demands creative work on the latter...
...just not possible." Within limits, cosmetic surgery can temporarily mask the ravages of age and bad habits. That's clearly why demand remains high, at least until the next serious economic downturn. Given a choice between tight money and sagging skin, consumers may opt to live with the latter...
...doesn't do innocence. But he does bad guys really well. Having made his name as the latter-day master of noir with books on L.A. cops, murderers and assorted lowlifes--L.A. Confidential, The Black Dahlia--Ellroy began searching for larger game to hunt. He found it in the turmoil of the 1960s, with the assassinations of the two Kennedys and Martin Luther King Jr. and the drama of the civil rights struggle. "I lived through the '60s, with these great events roiling around me. I never partook, but I always felt there were private stories underneath the public events...
...some system of fooling the grader, although I think I should prefer the world “impressing.” We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for system being, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocation, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few, and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
...supplying those treatments through the public health system on which its impoverished citizenry depends. And that came on top of last week's announcement that the Bush administration will donate $200 million to a global fund to fight the AIDS pandemic in the developing world. The reason the latter is bad news is that $200 million is about 10 percent of the amount most experts had agreed would be needed from the U.S. to kick-start the fund. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Anan, ever the diplomat, praised the administration for its contribution, but noted that, "we need a response that...