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During a stopover in Paris, Annan refused to fax the final seven-paragraph agreement to Washington, saying he wanted to present it formally to the whole Security Council. U.S. intelligence, however, came up with a bootleg copy of the agreement and delivered it to the White House early Monday. "As soon as we looked at it," says an official, "we knew where the problems were." It was not a vague compromise, as the U.S. had feared, nor had Saddam caved in completely...
...they are outside of it. In particular, the tone of the article suggested that Orthodox Jews and Chabad Jews in particular are intolerant of the level of observance of other Jews, and that they are ethnocentric and exclusive. The only statements to the contrary were buried in the last paragraph of the article...
Apart from his zealous call for enforcement, Scali indulges in an even more asinine assertion in the final paragraph of his manifesto. "Gen-Xers, born between 1961 and 1981," according to Scali, "are without such character and are the drunks and drug addicted students of today...
...Gore is a curious specimen. To understand why, it helps to know about the scissors. Whenever a memo, article or academic paper sparks the Vice President's formidable mind, he pulls out his scissors and begins snipping. He whittles a page down to a paragraph, the paragraph down to a sentence and that sentence down to the one key phrase that contains, for Gore, the essence of the whole idea. Then he arranges the fragment on his desk among the other scraps of paper--seeds of thought, if you will--already lying there. "You just pray nobody sneezes," says Carol...
...what Spree did was bad, and, no, you really shouldn't choke your boss, especially in front of your co-workers. But how bad was it? Sprewell's contract was the first ever terminated through paragraph 16A1 of the uniform player contract, which prohibits "acts of moral turpitude." And the yearlong ban was, by 10 months, the longest in NBA history. Was what Sprewell did that much worse than Charles Barkley's throwing a guy through a plate-glass window? Worse than Barkley's spitting on a fan? Worse than Barkley's punching...