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Administration officials seemed surprisingly comfortable with surfing the instability. While European allies pleaded to rush in to prevent mayhem, the Bush Administration preferred to wait and see (irritating best pal Tony Blair, who wanted to deploy hundreds of British peacekeepers). "They're not devolving into slaughter," a senior State Department official said of the warlords. Washington saw only minimal intertribal fighting, so the smart play was to sit back and let Afghan leaders run things...
...fifth - and supposedly last - day of the conference, he stepped in to help his pal, beleaguered European Union trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy, who was struggling to defend the E.U.?s much-maligned Common Agricultural Policy. With the rest of the WTO seeking an apparently innocuous commitment to phase out agriculture subsidies, and France threatening to flounce out of the meeting if such a plan were accepted, Zoellick came up with a face-saving caveat. The words phasing out were kept, but they were preceded by "without prejudging the outcome of the negotiations," meaning that there was no need actually...
Indeed, Shallow Hal is very nearly groundbreaking in its ability to simultaneously infuriate and sadden audiences critical of its offensive, unfunny plot gimmick. From early in his life, Shallow Hal (Jack Black) has been the mindless embodiment of all things misogynistic. He and revolting pal Mauricio, another caricature of male chauvinism played by the easily dislikable Jason Alexander, objectify and harass each woman unfortunate enough to cross their path...
...President Bush may think he's as thick as thieves with his pal Vladimir Putin, but hopefully someone at the White House is reading the English edition of Pravda. The erstwhile communist mouthpiece reports that Russia's generals want to send troops back into Afghanistan, in the hope of backing up their Tajik allies against U.S.-backed Uzbeks in the battle for supremacy among rival factions of the Northern Alliance. Russia wants to restore the Tajik-led government overthrown by the Taliban in 1996. "Pakistan is against such development of the events, as well the U.S.A., due to the efforts...
...some of my friends" to field the tougher questions, allowing him to usher in the rest of the White House staff cast. It's a little like the scene in a kids' dental-hygiene film where the host says, "Now I'm going to get our old pal Mr. Floss to sing us a song about tooth decay...