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Star wars has quietly come of age. Last week marked the 21st anniversary of President Reagan's speech laying out his dream of building a missile shield that would render nuclear-tipped missiles "impotent and obsolete." And the Bush Administration is plowing ahead with plans to have a rudimentary system capable of doing just that ready before this fall's election. But concerns about the system's technical capabilities--and its necessity--continue to mount...
Corporate responsibility goes hand-in-hand with consumer responsibility. Democrats who voted against the bill are not against consumers taking responsibility for their personal choices; instead they believe, rightly, that it is irresponsible to shield entire industries through legislation. Congressional Republicans have found another divisive wedge issue for the election season, and we expect they will exploit...
...Last week, MDP lawmakers teamed up with legislators from the conservative GNP to oust him. Knowing they would lose a vote, members of the pro-Roh Uri Party?which holds only 47 of the Assembly's 273 seats?tried to block the March 12 balloting by forming a human shield around the Speaker's podium, hoping to prevent him from taking his seat and calling the vote. It didn't work. Security guards physically carried out the barricading legislators, and the ruffled Speaker took his seat to call a secret ballot on the motion, which passed overwhelmingly because...
After a few quick hits of the Boston area bar scene, Scott and partner Curtis, played by up and comer Derek Luke, know that something is up. And by something, I mean the need to go undercover in a scheme that is like The Shield meets The A-Team in glorious wide-screen. At about which point, the plot stops making sense...
...nuclear energy infrastructure that has allowed Iran to pursue its strategic ambitions, and it may have helped arm Saddam Hussein long after UN sanctions forbade it. Putin recently instructed his defense industry to pursue technologies that would allow Russian missiles to confound the Bush administration's planned missile-defense shield, thereby maintaining the deterrent capability of Moscow's own strategic arsenal. The arrest late last year of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, owner of the massive Yukos oil company, was interpreted by some as a sign that the former KGB colonel-turned-President even planned to reassert state control over the economy...