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Students at University of Oxford will encounter a similar invisible shield of protection when another student returns to school. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the 19-year-old son of Benazir Bhutto, the Pakistani prime ministerial candidate who was assassinated on Dec. 27, resumes his studies next week at Christ Church college after attending his mother's funeral. Bhutto Zardari's surprise appointment as the titular head of the Pakistan People's Party has sent Oxford police and university authorities scrambling for a new protection plan. It also has focused attention again on an old debate - between academics keen to preserve...
...Mukasey ordered the House intelligence committee to halt its probe for fear that a House investigation would jeopardize that of the Justice Department. Given Mukasey’s refusal to deem one such enhanced interrogation technique, waterboarding, illegal during his confirmation hearings, the Justice Department probe seems likely to shield the Bush administration from censure...
...free gas for anyone." If and when he becomes Russian President, Medvedev will shake hands warmly with President Bush. It would be ill-advised for Washington, however, to believe Russia's perceptions of its foreign-policy interests will change regarding Kosovo, Iran or the U.S.-proposed "nuclear shield" installations in Poland and the Czech Republic. Even in internal policy there is no serious disagreement between Medvedev and Putin...
...other U.S. officials acknowledge that the reversal in the NIE on Iran makes the challenge of selling the European piece of the U.S. missile shield, which expands on already existing missile-defense sites in Alaska and California, even tougher. The threat of the "mullahs' nukes" has been the mainstay of the case made by U.S. officials to justify the European missile-defense deployment. "Iran is pursuing the technology that could be used to produce nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles of increasing range that could deliver them," President Bush told a military audience October 23. "Today we have...
...effective at spreading terror than death and destruction. And a missile crammed with high explosives is little more than a flying car bomb - and not nearly as accurate. U.S. officials may struggle to convince skeptics that the threat they pose justify the costs, in all senses, of a missile shield...