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...unclear if Clinton can pull out a win by convincing voters that journalism's old boys have ganged up on her, but at least the skit crystallized the argument. And if she succeeds, it will be partly by doing something the Bush Administration has perfected: running against the mainstream media. Clinton has spent months arguing that she's the best candidate to beat the gop. With her SNL strategy, maybe she can instead make the case that she's the best candidate to beat the press...
...loss of circulation, isn't uncommon in gas drilling. It usually means that natural fractures inside the borehole are allowing drilling fluid to leak out. Lapindo's engineers responded by pumping heavy drilling mud into the well to seal the cracks and restore pressure. Then they began to pull out the drill. Davies thinks that while they were removing the drill on the morning of May 28, they set off a massive "kick," in which high-pressure water and gas from the surrounding rock flowed into, rather than out of, the borehole. To prevent a potentially dangerous blowout, the drillers...
...laude, Page says he served as the Annenberg Fellow at Eton College, an elite British preparatory school, for a year before returning to Boston to work at a small start-up investment bank called America’s Growth Capital. It was then Page says he experienced a strong pull to the ministry...
Since November, the U.S. has been providing military intelligence to the Turkish army, helping target air strikes. Now that the Turkish army is engaged on the field in north Iraq, it may not want to pull back quickly. Ankara is deeply suspicious of the regional Kurdish government there, which it accuses of supporting the PKK. It is also concerned that the largely autonomous region may seek independence, in turn fomenting similar demands by its own restive Kurdish population. In response to Gates' remarks, the Turkish military did not set a timetable for withdrawal. "Short-term is a relative notion. Sometimes...
...Turkey does pull back, it would represent a victory for Iraq's stability. However, it would also underline the extent to which the United States - not the Iraqi government - remains the arbiter of Iraq's affairs...