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...sufficient reliability to deter it from launching a preemptive strike anyway, just to be on the safe side. "A system of defense need not be perfect, but the American people must not be left completely defenseless," he said. Think about that one for a moment: Allowing for any margin of error in the functioning of a multibillion dollar system designed to stop the odd missile fired by a rogue state renders it pointless. It's rather like applying the "need not be perfect" standard to a condom...
...coveted Whitbread Book of the Year award for his tragicomedy, English Passengers; in London. The epic novel interweaves the voyage of a group of bigoted 19th century Englishmen searching for the Garden of Eden and the genocide of Tasmanian Aboriginals. Kneale won the $33,000 prize by the narrowest margin ever, on the chairman's vote...
...pretty much have to play excellent basketball from here on out," Prasse-Freeman said. "There's no margin for error. It's a feeling of desperation...
...debate, from left to right and back again, has already begun. Where is the message in John Ashcroft's confirmation as U.S. attorney general? Was it in the slim margin of his victory? Or in the victory itself...
...Republicans can't afford to leave any more votes behind. What the razor-thin national margin showed was that every vote counts. Bush cannot write off the black vote, a growing political force in Florida (back voters made up 15 percent of the total vote in 2000, compared to only 10 percent four years before) if he wants to stay in office four years from...