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...Authorities believe Tokhtakhounov may have arranged the fix in favor of the French ice dancing pair in exchange for a visa to return to France. Russian officials call the charges of mafia involvement "fantastic," telling the Associated Press they wouldn't be surprised if the scenario had been manufactured "in Hollywood" to retroactively justify giving two gold medals in the pairs event. Meanwhile, Italian investigators say they nabbed Tokhtakhounov during an organized-crime investigation; they happened to have tapped his phone in February and recorded several conversations with a French man, during which Tokhtakhounov made repeated references to the figure...
...strongest argument in favor of the "Desert Storm II" scenario is that the U.S. can't afford the political consequences of failure, or even of a stalled offensive. Hawks say it fails to take sufficient advantage of U.S. technological advantage, and that the slow buildup of forces that would delay action at least until next spring gives Saddam time to maneuver to avoid attack. But precisely because there's consensus over the inadmissibility of failure, a "Desert Storm II" scale force is likely to be assembled even if only to allow a seamless transition to Plan B if either...
Besides the deep ethnic cleavages and strong, competing regional interests in Iraq's future, existing Iraqi opposition groups remain fractious - a number of key leaders have been invited to Washington next week in search of some agreement over a post-Saddam scenario. Right now there is no U.S.-friendly Iraqi leader who the U.S. could simply install in Baghdad after Saddam's ouster, and there's considerable fear on Capitol Hill (and in the Pentagon) that ousting Saddam could force the U.S. into a long-term occupation of an Arab country...
...annually, and the P/E multiple retreats to 16, the market will return zippo for five more years, except for an annual dividend of less than 2%. This assessment may prove too pessimistic. The recession depressed earnings; a robust recovery could drive them higher faster. But there's no realistic scenario in which stocks resume and sustain anything close to their '90s trajectory...
...find out what you have to do to win. The labyrinthine plot and convincing design may create a world in which players like to linger, but "Winning is always the final conclusion." The show follows the way action games developed from text games - which describe a scenario and invite you to type in actions for your character to perform - putting the same kind of story into a realistic environment. You may find yourself on Monkey Island and set out to explore it, solving puzzles and following clues. Action games have become ultrasophisticated, with realistic lighting and weather effects. Some take...