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...Bush's Healthy Marriage Initiative. The Administration sees marriage education as a tonic for poverty and other societal problems, particularly when children are involved. In the welfare reauthorization bill now pending in the Senate, the White House has asked Congress to spend $1.5 billion on such programs--a bold request in a time of huge budget deficits, a fervid national debate over the very meaning of marriage and uncertainty over the effectiveness of marriage-education policies...
...April IAEA's chief weapons inspector for Iraq warned the U.S. of the vulnerability of the site, and in May 2003, an internal IAEA memo warned that terrorists could be looting "the greatest explosives bonanza in history." Seventeen months later, on Oct. 10, in response to a long-standing request from the IAEA to account for sensitive materials, the interim Iraqi government notified the agency that al-Qaqaa had been stripped clean. The White House learned about the notification a few days later...
...particularly memorable sequence, Edna Mode flies into a fury over Mr. Incredible’s request for a cape to go with his supersuit. “No capes!” the diminutive woman shrieks, her oversized spectacles filling the screen as she recounts the obviously often retold stories of heroes who had their capes sucked into jet engines and caught upon rockets blasting off into space...
...Iraq, where a bloody assault on Fallujah and other insurgent strongholds is expected soon, in hopes of paving the way for elections in January to choose a national assembly. If all goes well, the assembly will produce a constitution intended to progressively delegitimize the insurgents. Kerry was expected to request troops from Europe - France and Germany in particular. But given the bad blood generated during his first term, Bush can't realistically expect more help from the allies - Poland, Italy, Ukraine, Hungary and the Czech Republic have already indicated they'll cut back their troops next year. That lets European...
Results in New Mexico and Iowa were still unclear early this morning, and the Kerry campaign had not said whether it would request a recount of votes in Ohio...