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...Rumsfeld would have a tough time convincing even the most loyal of U.S. allies to go to war with Iran - and not only because almost two months after Saddam's overthrow, no evidence has yet emerged to conclusively validate the WMD and al-Qaeda charges against Iraq. Even the Bush administration's most loyal ally, Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair, may be inclined to take a more nuanced view than Rumsfeld. Britain does, after all, maintain diplomatic ties with Tehran and has engaged actively with Iran in the hope of promoting the country's reform movement...
...also seems to like what his support for Gonzales seems to say about himself: that the aristocratic President is an egalitarian guy capable of rewarding up-by-the-bootstraps achievement. All this may be important enough to Bush that he's willing to take some political heat for his loyal pal, whose life story he cited in his second inaugural address as Governor of Texas. "I think of my friend Al Gonzales, recently sworn in as a supreme-court justice," Bush said back in 1999. "His parents reared eight children in a two-bedroom house in Houston. They sacrificed...
...news stories and allegations to their origins in tainted, planted, unfounded, retracted, distorted, misleading and plain nonexistent evidence. Throughout, we get too brief flashbulb glimpses of the real star of the show: Blumenthal's Clinton is a smart, extroverted, cardplayer, charismatic, 24/7 conversation junkie--but Blumenthal is much too loyal an ally to make a good portraitist...
...flash memory cards, used to store pictures taken with a digital camera. Another difference: STMicro has formed partnerships with several key customers, such as mobile phone maker Nokia. This allows the company to involve its customers early on in the development of semiconductors. "This secures a very strong and loyal customer base," says analyst Malcolm Penn. STMicro was criticized for not jumping in when the dram cycle was up. But analysts say it takes strong nerves and experience to survive in the dram business, and both STMicro and Infineon made valid choices. "This market is not for the faint-hearted...
Saddam and his bloody enforcers were weapons of mass destruction. They were just as lethal as the missiles, gases, chemicals and other weapons that Hans Blix and his team of U.N. inspectors searched for. The weapons were a villainous leader and blindly loyal, amoral killers who targeted their own people. The damage and destruction to the Iraqis were massive in terms of lives, well-being, liberties, property and national resources. Saddam destroyed the hopes and aspirations of an entire generation of his people. JACK MODZELEWSKI London...