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...Blair will visit Camp David this weekend as the most significant political leader offering Bush unstinting support. In the past two weeks, he has said again, in language stronger than ever, that although he would prefer clear U.N. backing for a war in Iraq - and he will make that point at Camp David - Britain's troops will fight alongside their American counterparts if Washington judges that Saddam Hussein is not making a good-faith effort to disarm Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Britons are used to his trimming and spinning on domestic issues; but as a senior British official...
...polarizing. Love-'em-or-hate-'em shows fit HBO's business model: the gleefully misanthropic Curb Your Enthusiasm is a hit for HBO because a few million people like it intensely enough to pay for it. But a network, which needs lots of eyeballs to sell to advertisers, would prefer 25 million viewers who don't dislike a show enough to change the channel. Pay-cable series also don't have to be written to accommodate commercial breaks...
...Voices of Mothers Who Care, especially after a recent executive decision that nixed criminal charges for bank owners who had fraudulently misused massive federal loans. "The President doesn't mind giving breaks to corrupt bankers. Why should we have to sacrifice so that they can get off? Megawati would prefer to side with the corrupters than?]with) the people...
...clear this amorphous gray market is entrenched. The discontinued or surplus CDs, generally known as "cutouts" in the West, are in China called dakou (saw gash) because some albums have a telltale notch in the jewel box and sometimes on the disc itself. Many music buffs prefer them to pirated copies, because the prices are comparable, quality is first rate and the selection of hard-to-find foreign bands is better: choice Shantou selections include artists such as Otis Redding, Iggy Pop, Run-D.M.C., Compay Segundo and Brigitte Fontaine. On some albums, a song track or two has been...
...right, of course, about the third alternative, and a very sensible one it is—working out some system of fooling the grader, although I think I should prefer the word “impressing.” We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for system being, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocation, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...