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...Surely 9/11 must be the worst possible thing for Bush to use in his campaign! No link between al-Qaeda and Iraq has been proved, and no weapons of mass destruction have been found. Iraq is in terrible shape because of the war, and the Madrid attacks show that the terrorists' resolve has strengthened. How could the issue of 9/11 boost Bush's re-election prospects? Sarah Van Ingelgom Hong Kong...
Whether it be Nicole Kidman's or John Kerry's, these days it's most likely to come with a smile. The latter, we learn, is among 30% of the U.S. population who expose their canine teeth when they smile (67% form a toothless crescent shape); while women, unlike men, whose bodies secrete high levels of testosterone, are more likely to laugh. By book's end, the reader has become familiar with the nasolabial fold (the curving lines which form between the cheeks and upper lip) and the inner-workings of the smile, whose principal puppet master is the cranial...
...double-overtime victory against Brown in the ECAC semi-finals, Harvard bounced back the next day to rout St. Lawrence, 6-1. Last year, when the Crimson also made it all the way to the championship game, there were fewer of the close battles that have helped shape the current Harvard team...
...average performers to take up to five years of unpaid leave for personal reasons. Though most benefits will be suspended, the firm will continue to cover professional licensing fees for those on leave and will pay to send them for weeklong annual training sessions to keep their skills in shape. Such efforts have spawned their own goofy jargon. Professionals who return to their ex-employers are known as boomerangs, and the effort to reel them back in is called alumni relations...
...there hasn't been this huge hue and cry to get it out of the game because it's so barbarian. We have bigger problems." That demonstrates deafness to this week's hue and cry, but Daly is correct in one regard. The NHL is in the worst shape of its history, having suffered from overexpansion in the past decade. The game itself has been dulled by a suffocating defensive style of play. Fights and hard hits are all the sport has to promote itself with in the U.S., as it does in commercials and widely sold videos of fights...