Word: motioning
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...Senate's probe of the CIA's Iraq intelligence to be broadened to examine whether Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other Administration officials hyped or otherwise mischievously handled the evidence to build support for the war. Chairman Pat Roberts, a Kansas Republican, postponed action on Rockefeller's motion for at least a week while Roberts measured the mood in his ranks. As a possible concession to the Democrats, Roberts has agreed to investigate the Pentagon's secretive Office of Special Plans, the shadow spy service that was assembled by neoconservatives who were determined to oust Saddam. Democrats want...
...meet bachelor No. 1: Tom Farrell is the hero of Love Monkey (William Morrow; 336 pages) by Kyle Smith (an editor at TIME's sister publication PEOPLE). At 32, Tom is a hack journalist at a New York City tabloid. When he goes jogging, "it's prose in motion," and his bachelor pad is a "maximum-insecurity facility." Tom ricochets miserably around the pinball machine of Manhattan's bar scene, musing wittily on the state of the modern male and trying to shake an obsession with his dreamy co-worker Julia. You couldn't ask for a more entertaining drinking...
...disarray over everything from the Stability and Growth Pact to the proposed new constitution. But others fear that the Big Three are getting together to dictate terms to the rest of Europe. The trio could be the engine of a newly invigorated Europe - or the impetus for a slow-motion car wreck. It certainly won't hurt the top men themselves, each of whom has an anchor chained to his domestic poll ratings, to be seen throwing their weight around in the E.U. Blair has been badly damaged by the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq...
What a difference a few weeks makes. When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced last summer that it would move this year’s Oscars ceremony from the doldrums of March to the high-profile TV sweeps month of February, few could have predicted the staggering impact that the move would have on this year’s slate of Oscar nominees. In the days before this year’s nominations, network pundits were predicting big things for high-profile December openers like Cold Mountain and The Last Samurai. But when...
...They run a motion offense, and we have had some trouble in the past against the motion offense,” Stehle said. “The key will be keeping the ball out of the middle...