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Bush meets with British Prime Minister Tony Blair at Camp David. Then, a day after the one-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush challenges the U.N. to confront the “grave and gathering danger” of Iraq—or allow the U.S. to do so. Bush asks Congress for authority to “use all means,” including military force if necessary, to disarm and overthrow Saddam if he does not comply with U.N. demands...
According to Yale unions spokesperson Bill Meyerson, Local 34 and Local 35—which represents Yale’s service and maintenance workers—are asking for one-year retroactive raises of 4 and 3 percent and increases of 8.5 percent and 5.5 percent over the next three years, respectively...
...fine was reduced to $25,000, but Cooder was ordered to stay out of Cuba at the precise moment the public was thirsting for more Cuban music. On the last day of the Clinton presidency--after Cooder had lobbied the State Department for two years--he was given a one-year exemption from the travel ban. The result is Mambo Sinuendo, Cooder's playful, dueling guitar album with Manuel Galban. "I knew that I wanted to work with the Buena Vista musicians again because, hey, many of them are geniuses," says Cooder. "But Manuel's the most surprising of them...
...power plant on Lake Huron in Ontario, the company is also an electricity generator. McArthur River lies at the heart of a nuclear empire that Cameco says will soon stretch from Saskatchewan to Central Asia to Australia. Cameco's stock, which has been climbing since early 2000, hit a one-year low of $16 a share last September, amid uncertainties about the uranium market. But as war with Iraq has grown more likely, and McArthur River production has reached capacity, investors have pushed the stock back up to almost $24 a share...
...Lanka On Feb. 22, against all expectations, Sri Lanka celebrated the one-year anniversary of its cease-fire agreement with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. On Mar. 18, formal talks will resume as the two sides continue to forge a federalist government. Not all is tranquil: on Feb. 7, three Tigers suspected of arms smuggling blew themselves up when international inspectors tried to board their boat. But chief government negotiator and Minister for Constitutional Affairs G.L. Peiris says that "the greatest achievement is the cessation of violence for a continuous period of one year." Given the state of peace...