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...sojourn in Gozzipstan has made the Guy swear off travel writing for life. His hostel’s sheets were covered by unsightly lies, the tap water was infected with rumor-carrying bacteria, and he was run out of the capital city of Gozzipmont by angry natives wielding sharp, poison-tipped innuendo...
...that Iraq had loaded chemical and biological weapons in missiles and bombs in 1991 and issued standing orders to fire them if U.S. troops moved on Baghdad. "The Iraqis stated that these actions apparently deterred the United States from going to Baghdad," said Duelfer. Saddam believed it was his poison gases and anthrax that saved him in 1991 - and with the U.S. having declared "regime change" as its primary objective in Iraq, Saddam may be loath to give up what he considers his trump card by submitting to unfettered inspections...
...these questions, at least, remove the implied accusations of prejudice that poison the atmosphere around ethnic studies. They present the case for the study of identity in its clearest form, separate from the related issue of curricular imbalance and the entirely unrelated issue of whether Harvard likes minorities. They only need to be debated once, eliminating the eternal recurrence that would follow as concentrations are requested for every “distinct social group.” And they are questions the University, as an academic community, is most capable of debating—and resolving well...
Camps in rural areas say they are safer for kids today. But Heather Hill parents don't buy it. "Safer?" snaps my brother-in-law. "'Rural area' is a euphemism for a meadow filled with poison ivy and snakes." He likes the idea of all those Tom Sawyers and Becky Thatchers running from yard to yard this summer...
...immediate concern that the city's water supply was a terrorist target, with some reports indicating that the terrorists had identified access to the water system under the U.S. embassy on the Via Veneto. But further investigation led authorities to suspect that they had thwarted not an attempt to poison the water supply, but the kind of chemical attack that Ben Khemais plotted last spring...