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...Bush Administration's fixation on finding weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in 2003 diverted precious intelligence resources that could have helped thwart the fledgling insurgency...
...being slightly rougher on the click wheel than on the rest of the front. "I know you're not going to consciously find these details particularly appealing," he concedes, "but I think it's the fact that we've worried about all of them that makes the product so precious." He begs me to admire the tightness of the reveals--that's industrial-design-speak for the gap where two parts meet--and the finish on the tiny aluminum bottom plate where you plug in the headphones. When I ask him what the finish is--hey, just being polite...
...Crimson would have precious few other opportunities to score, managing just three shots against the top-ranked team in the Northeast...
...sentences, and posted new chunks of writing every three hours or so, reading through countless e-mails in the intervals and responding to them both directly and on the website. Compared to the inertia of writing the old way- with plenty of time to meet one?s deadlines, precious little awareness of one?s readers, and no easy way to offer second thoughts after one?s first thoughts reached the page-the momentum of this new process was exhilarating...
Charles Gray BAY ST. LOUIS, MISS. The Hancock County Historical Society executive director is upbeat despite the loss of a home with precious antiques and paintings...