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...able to compete in the embarrassingly easy multiple-choice quiz given to the top five. Between questions like, “Who said ‘Give me liberty or give me death’?” (hint: it’s not Benedict Arnold) is a desperate plea for pop-culture relevancy: “What does the phrase ‘bling bling’ mean...
...threats, such as al Qaeda, North Korea and the Taliban have been ignored. And perhaps most recklessly of all, Bush has blunted America’s ability to utilize the threat of force by rendering it meaningless. Like a prosecutor trying a murder suspect, Bush asked Saddam for a plea bargain—cooperate with U.N. inspectors, and we might not invade. But even after Saddam admitted the inspectors and Chief U.N. Weapons Inspector Hans Blix begged for more time, Bush still went for the death penalty, and our international credibility was trashed. The President proved his most ardent critics...
...excuses to postpone his departure. In any case, the opposition is so fragmented and unpopular that there's no obvious candidate to replace him. So it is that even as hordes of angry Liberians dumped dead bodies at the gates of the U.S. embassy in Monrovia in a desperate plea for American help last week, Taylor held a state funeral for his beloved mother, who died of natural causes, complete with a military band and gospel choir...
...said that Dalla Santa, who had been out on bail, was jailed immediately after his plea...
...million. Now the city faces a humanitarian catastrophe. Many people in the camps have received no food distribution since March. "It's heartbreaking," says a U.S. official who visited a Monrovian refugee camp last week. "But in a way it gives you resolve. What I saw was a plea...