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...revival before a general election expected next year. But even the narrowest victory could let Blair climb back, says Nick Sparrow, managing director of ICM Research. "People don't want wishy-washy Prime Ministers. In six months, if they think Blair stuck to what he believes in, a narrow victory could do him good." A senior Blair aide agrees, but harbors at least a tiny doubt about this week. "It could be the end of the beginning," he says. "Or it could...
Dean--and six other Democrats--will soon know whether all the time they have spent in Ottumwa and Council Bluffs and Davenport and Fort Dodge has paid off. Iowa's first-in-the-nation contest is only a week away, and most polls show Dean holding a narrow lead over Congressman Dick Gephardt, who won the caucuses in 1988 and whose candidacy will be all but finished if he doesn't eke out another victory this time. Gephardt is drawing most of his support from older, less affluent Iowans, Dean from upscale, educated and more socially liberal voters. The choice...
Instead, subsequent research by a mainland Chinese team challenged Yi's research, finding no evidence of the coronavirus in civets. Meanwhile, other scientists murmured that Yi's data was based on too narrow a range of samples drawn from just one market. Perhaps those civets, some argued, had been infected by humans in that market rather than the other way around. For Yi, a hot-tempered, chain-smoking workaholic, this was an unbearable impugning not just of his research but also of his genuine desire to apply his science to public health. Even more worrying was China's decision...
...suspect. As a 23-year-old, single male with brown skin and a Muslim name, I could be the man they are looking for. The moment I step off the plane at Kennedy Airport, I see they're looking harder than ever. A dozen federal officers crowd the narrow jetway. Not wanting to attract attention, I avoid their eyes...
Summers says he used essays submitted by the students to narrow down the group, but decided not to interview students because he didn’t want students to come in for an interview and then “feel that the president didn’t choose them...