Word: scoffs
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Putin, says Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general who is now a maverick Duma deputy, is known for keeping score and for a long memory. So the idea that he would want an infuriating gadfly like Litvinenko to disappear is not beyond reason. But the President's defenders scoff at the idea that he might have been involved in Litvinenko's death. Putin, they say, had no need to get rid of Litvinenko; the exile was an irrelevant crank. Milton Bearden, a former CIA spy in Moscow, as well as other experienced intelligence hands, agrees it would be nuts...
...Smoke and mirrors, scoff the Democrats, who believe they are riding a broad and ferocious wave that all but guarantees that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California will be Speaker, and not in a squeaker: "1 Day to Victory!" says the Web page of the Democratic Congressional Committee...
...Miura stool by Konstantin Grcic for Plank A stackable stool easily[an error occurred while processing this directive] slung over the shoulder for carrying, Miura might be described as an urban version of a shooting stick. The rigorous, British-trained, Munich-based Grcic would probably scoff at such speculation - he says his inspiration is a product's material qualities, in this case fiberglass-reinforced polypropylene. www.plank.it...
Many people may scoff at the decision earlier this week by the Berkeley City Council to put a resolution on the Nov. 7 ballot calling for President Bush and Vice President Cheney to be impeached. After all, 74,000 voters of what is often referred to as The People's Republic of Berkeley can't legally oust the President and Vice President. But Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates thinks his city is simply ahead of its time, as it has often proved to be in the past...
...recent flare-up was last week's tragedy on a Gaza beach, where a number of members of a Palestinian family were killed by what is suspected to have been a stray Israeli shell. Soon after Hamas declared an end to its unilateral cease-fire. Though Israeli officials might scoff at that statement - given the involvement of Hamas leaders in many previous rocket attacks against Israel from inside Gaza - the prospect of Hamas resuming terror attacks and Israeli plans for a broad offensive in northern Gaza suggest that a new wave of violence and political instability may be building...