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...Bush campaign. Clinton's U.N. representative Richard Holbrooke is so influential when it comes to Kerry's foreign policy views that he is considered the odds-on favorite to become Secretary of State if Kerry is elected. Kerry even picked up a hire from the Bush White House. When Rand Beers quit as Bush's senior assistant for counterterrorism, contending that Bush had gone to war in Iraq too soon and taken his eye off the global war on terrorism, Beers quickly found a home in the Kerry campaign as a senior foreign policy adviser...
...pounds. After a few years, he'll justify spending ?40 on a Diesel T shirt by telling himself he's worked so darned hard that he deserves a treat, even if it comes at a high price! After five years here, I still convert back to the South African rand, balk at the cost but then hand over my cash. What else can you do? Jackie Cranke Collier Row, England...
...pounds. After a few years, he'll justify spending ?40 on a Diesel T shirt by telling himself he's worked so darn hard that he deserves a treat, even if it comes at a high price! After five years here, I still convert back to the South African rand, balk at the cost, but then hand over my cash. What else can you do? Jackie Cranke Collier Row, England Unanswered Questions After months of work, the 9/11 commission has found no evidence that Iraq was involved in the 2001 attacks on the U.S. [June 28]. Shortly after that news...
...their commitments and want to leave active duty to stay on if their units are deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq. Tapping into anxiety about a possible draft, Kerry has likened these moves to a "back door" version of one. After last week's announcement, Kerry's national security adviser Rand Beers said, "Today that back door swung wide open." Retired Lieut. General Theodore Stroup, who directed Army personnel during Gulf War I, remarks, "This is not a draft. There will be some people who are upset, because they had planned on getting on with their lives." But, says Stroup...
...onlookers regularly wandering out for a beer or boerewors sausage. This year, it becomes quickly apparent, the bottom is falling out of the rhino market, perhaps because visiting hunters pay in U.S. dollars, and local buyers are cautious about exchange-rate losses with such a strong South African rand, which has risen by almost 100% against the dollar since January 2002. After all the ostriches, impalas, kudu, warthogs, springbok, giraffes, hippos, zebras and waterbuck are sold, the auction has raised $1.5 million, well down on last year's $3.3 million, but a sign that conservation efforts are working. Says Gaisford...