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...ringing praise and Blair's passionate, poetic salute to America before a joint session of congress, neither sounded triumphalist. The medal ceremony was postponed to a later date, and Blair and Bush spent the afternoon firing back at Iraq war skeptics and vowing to press on until they prevail - and are vindicated. The Blair line that got most media attention in his own country was his rationalization of the war in the event that no weapons of mass destruction are found in Iraq: "If we are wrong," said Blair, "we will have destroyed a threat that is at its least...
...Berkowitz has every right to follow the legal process as high as he wishes to go,” said University spokeperson Joe Wrinn. “We remain confident that we will continue to prevail...
Does Elle prevail? Why ask? We're talking fables, not reality, here, and this is a fine and merry one--"Ms. Woods Goes to Washington"--played to airy perfection by Reese Witherspoon and a light-on-its-feet cast. But the subject is not just airhead empowerment. Doubtless accidentally (we would almost rather endure another bad-hair day than bring this up), Legally Blonde 2 also empowers that widely ignored factor in American politics, our fundamental good nature. That is to say, it allows the constituency among us that favors meaningful gun control and environmental protection (and darkly suspects that...
...When DB charged him what he says were exorbitant prices to lease one of its engines, he took the case directly to Monti in Brussels, where it's still being examined. "They need to see they can't get away with it," he says. If people like Georg can prevail, a flourishing private sector for rail could develop in Europe. The question is whether it will be enough to reverse rail's long decline - or whether that train has already left the station...
...Iraqis to the extent that they'd consider taking up arms against the world's most powerful military, it has not, thus far, managed to endear the majority of Iraqis to the occupation authority, either. It may be a relatively safe bet, right now, that the U.S. will ultimately prevail in the new phase of conflict in Iraq, but the cost and duration of that victory may be higher than most Americans had been led to expect...