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Question: what do you feed a 500-lb. gorilla? Answer: whatever he wants. That's the simple explanation for why so many Europeans are skeptical about Bush's policy toward Iraq. The only remaining superpower can do whatever it wants. And it will. This time, with Saddam, it is a good and morally justified case, but what comes next? What other dictator will Bush choose to get rid of? The world would be a better place without Saddam. But the U.S. should work with the U.N., get the go-ahead from the Security Council and then give him hell. DIRK...
Part of Corl’s early struggles may have been due to the huge jump he had to make to the heavyweight class after competing at the 197-lb. position last year...
...call made by Vice President Dick Cheney, once a bitter opponent of Marxist liberation movements in Africa, to the Soviet-educated, former communist President Jose Eduardo dos Santos of Angola. Generally, the Administration got a good reception. "We're realistic enough to be on the side of the 800-lb. gorilla rather than between the gorilla and Iraq," confessed a senior diplomat from one Council member nation. China and Russia, both with veto power in the Council, said Powell's speech had changed little, but neither is thought likely to nix a new resolution. "Russia," said a Foreign Ministry official...
...which is often also organic and shade-grown, strives to give growers in developing nations a living wage. Coffee is the world's second largest traded commodity, after oil. But many coffee farmers live in abject poverty. Simply to meet production costs, they need to be paid 80˘ per lb., but the market rate is about 50˘. That translates into less than 12˘ an hour for the workers who pick and process the beans. Companies that are fair-trade certified buy coffee directly from farmers at set prices that allow them to pay their workers a living wage...
...heavier categories once again proved to be the Achilles’ heel for Harvard, as it lost the 184-lb., 197-lb. and heavyweight matches...