Word: salvos
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...another PR salvo against Bin Laden, intelligence sources have told Newsday that the terror boss was responsible for two plots to kill President Clinton. The sources said FBI agents had learned from captured suspects that a plot to kill the President during a visit to the Philippines was abandoned because of tight security, while a second assassination plot was to have been attempted during Clinton's canceled Pakistan visit. If the reports are true, Washington would do well to beef up security for next week's Moscow trip -- after all, Bin Laden is also alleged to have trained a number...
Monicagate is still very much alive, observes Slate's Scott Shuger, who ledes his Friday dispatch with USA Today's version of Kathleen Willey's lawyer's spin control. To balance it out, Shuger turns to the Wash Post and its Bob Bennett salvo in the Jones case. As for the non-Monica rundown, Slate's SS points us to the NYT's look at what's new with Zhu, China's new prime minister; the WSJ's take a on a court win in Muncie, Ind., for cigarette makers; and the LAT's coverage of Rupert Murdoch...
...final salvo of that battle has yet to be launched...
Kyoto: Why You Should Care The global warming treaty is nearly ready, and it's stronger than the U.S. delegation would have liked. Could it be the opening salvo of the first major international conflict of the next century? Full Story...
...become a mother? Yes. But to me that was a different question. Thus my foray into fertility treatment lasted barely eight months--an eye blink compared with the brave women who soldier on year after year. I found every moment of that battle against biology a nightmare. The first salvo was Clomid, prescribed by a gynecologist who, upon learning that I was 37 and Joe 50, warned, "Given your ages, you should proceed as quickly as possible." Eager to hasten a pregnancy that already felt long overdue, I swallowed the pills. But rather than stimulating more eggs, the drug plunged...