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...Mindful of allied concerns, the traditionally plain-spoken President Bush on Monday displayed some of the semantic gymnastics more familiar from his predecessor by suggesting that "regime change" could simply mean compliance with UN demands - if Saddam ended his wicked ways, his regime would have changed, right? That followed comments on Sunday by Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to the effect that the U.S. priority was simply getting rid of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction...
FINGERPRINTS Most prints, set down by oils and sweat on the surface of fingers and hands, are not easy to spot. But investigators have a hefty bag of tricks to expose them-powder, chemicals, lasers and lights. Or even plain old superglue. Prints that are invisible on things like duct tape will appear once subjected to fumes from the heated glue...
...Harvard needs to find space. It’s that plain and simple,” she says...
...decided this week to look more closely at something that's in plain view: the World Series. More specifically, Barry Bonds, who in the world of baseball is so well known, and so highly regarded, that the question as the Series begins is not so much "Will the Angels (or Giants) win?" as it is "Will the Angels pitch to Barry Bonds?" The San Francisco Giants outfielder, by far the best hitter in the game, is a kind of black hole, a gravitational force that warps everything around him, and all the talk of the baseball world this week centered...
...concentrated. A wooden dummy comes to life for her in the body of her lover, Frank, who disappears as soon as the dummy is removed from a storage shed. The elements of the fantastic that pop up in these parts of the story are not even magically real, just plain ridiculous. They seem severed from the main stream of history flowing through the novel...