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ARGHHH! Can't ... maintain ... proper ... opprobrium...
...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...
...framed in the context of the approaching 2004 election. Always nervous that the president's official duties will seem politically motivated, the White House wants to conceal any outward appearance of striving for victory while working robustly behind the scenes to do just that. No one will have to maintain this balance more than the new resident behind the podium. In 2000, Bush's team tried to keep the press at bay, much as it does in the White House. But when disaster struck in the form of John McCain's devastating victory in the New Hampshire primary, Bush...
...auto-driven race to capitalize on new growth, which European semiconductor manufacturer is best poised to win? Europe's biggest semiconductor manufacturers - STMicroelectronics and Infineon - are ranked fourth and seventh in the world respectively. Each company is pursuing a different strategy. Infineon is determined to maintain a range of products from the highly cyclical drams - a computer chip that acts as a temporary storage depot for data while the computer performs a task - to "logic" chips used in devices such as mobile phones. Meanwhile, Schumacher hopes to offset the downturn in the dram cycle by being strong in logic chips...
...Coalition officials try to look on the bright side. They maintain that any suggestion the missing radiation sources could be used for a radiological or dirty bomb is a "stretch." They add that the looting was spontaneous and disorganized, carried out by people who had no idea what they were stealing. But the looters were often armed and came from villages known for their criminal gangs - "many" looters were killed in clashes with Marines, military sources say. Meanwhile Dr. Faiz Al Berkdar, the Saddam-era director general of the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission, and a bitter critic...