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...that given time, they would provide the evidence to back up the extravagant prewar claims of the unconventional weapons threat from Iraq. Last week, however, they appeared to quietly give up the ghost. David Kay, the CIA weapons inspector put in charge of the hunt by the Bush administration quit and told National Public Radio that Iraq had no stockpiles of banned weapons when the war began last March...
...splitting, soccer mom--wooing ways by candidates representing "the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party." "We're not going to beat George Bush by being Bush Lite," Howard Dean declared last week in Nashua, N.H. "The way to beat George Bush is to give the 50% of Americans who quit voting because they can't tell the difference between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party a reason to vote again." Take that, Triangulator in Chief...
...dossier on Iraqi WMD. But Blair has two vulnerabilities he cannot shake off. One is Iraq. He demanded his party back him in a war that many of his M.P.s thought premature at best and illegal at worst. It hasn't helped that the chief U.S. weapons hunter quit last week, saying he didn't think there were any WMD stockpiles to find. The ICM poll shows that 53% of Britons think the war was justified anyway (against 41% who don't), but a MORI poll released last week found 59% are still dissatisfied with Blair's job performance...
...volatile American John McEnroe in the final. Their playing styles were as different as their temperaments: Borg was a machine, McEnroe an artist. When the challenger prevailed, it was clear to all observers that he was now the world's best. Borg certainly knew it - only 25, he quit the game soon afterward...
...many individuals and corporations have a vested interest in keeping things the way they are with regards to the sedentary, fast food consuming lifestyle that leads to obesity. A network such as NBC isn’t going to start airing public service announcements telling people to quit watching TV and get some much-needed exercise. Nor would it go on a crusade against cheeseburgers and soda when many of its corporate sponsors are in the fast food industry. There are a number of companies that profit from the unhealthy habits of Americans and thus further perpetuate them...