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...would be a mistake to avoid Coupling out of prudishness. There are far better reasons to avoid it. If watching TV is like dating, then to maintain a relationship a set of characters has to be lovable or irresistibly maddening. Coupling's six are just Friends' characters taken to obnoxious extremes. The three women are, respectively, bitchy, desperate and crazy, but what saves the show from misogyny is that the men, in turn, are selfish, preening and pathetic...
...When we did get runs, it was a little difficult for us to maintain a lead,” Ogbechie said. “We definitely didn’t give up. We knew we could beat the team...
...defend their findings in the face of robust questioning. One senior CIA analyst suggested last week, in a little-noted conference speech elaborating on an article she'd written long before the Iraq war, that the intelligence community must ensure that its analysts are trained on "how to maintain integrity" under questioning from senior officials who are pushing certain "policy goals." Carmen Medina, a 20-year veteran analyst and the new chief of the CIA's Strategic Assessments Group, declined to comment specifically on the Iraq situation, but said that sharp questioning from top officials is a fact of life...
...heartening, the responsibility cannot be Kidd’s alone. The delegation of responsibility to the assistant and associate deans should serve to insure that students are heard, not simply add another level of bureaucracy to shield undergraduates from contact with Gross himself. It is necessary for Gross to maintain a personal relationship with as many students at the College as possible—only in knowing the student body can a dean understand and legislate the myriad issues that affect student life...
...surprising that people make that connection." Indeed, although the Bush administration never actually claimed that Saddam Hussein was directly involved in the 9/11 attacks, those attacks were seldom absent from the prewar speeches of administration officials making the case for an invasion. Critics of the administration maintain that the White House's own prewar rhetoric encouraged the misconception, and certainly did little to discourage it. Indeed, when he proclaimed victory over Saddam on May 1, President Bush said, "The battle of Iraq is one victory in a war on terror that began on September the 11, 2001... The liberation...