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...against that backdrop that Pelosi announced her plan to hold a series of votes on Iraq this month--one each week throughout July. The Democrats' strategy of slowly winning over GOP votes to their side has already shown some success, as witnessed by recent efforts by Republican Senators John Warner and Richard Lugar to hasten the White House's timeline. Democratic leaders are also counting on the fact that public opinion continues to turn against the war. "This issue is a much more challenging problem on the Republican side," says Chris Van Hollen, head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee...
...Times's best-seller lists. There at No. 3 stands Tina Brown's biography of the Essex Girls' inspiration--Diana, Princess of Wales, who died 10 years ago next month. Diana famously loved the U.S. for reasons that have seduced countless Brits over the centuries. On the western side of the Atlantic you aren't judged by your parentage or whether you streak your hair. And the weather is better...
There is too much mistrust for anyone to answer that question unequivocally. But the cautious optimists on the U.S. side believe the step-by-step approach outlined in the Feb. 13 agreement may bear fruit beyond Yongbyon. Kim got desperately needed fuel oil in return for shutting the plutonium reactor, and there are more economic and diplomatic goodies in store if he completes the next steps of the deal he signed: outlining in detail what nuclear material his regime has--including a disputed uranium-enrichment program--and disposing...
...Simply increasing the dose of certain agents, for instance, gives kids an advantage over some rapidly growing cancers. Young hearts, lungs and kidneys, it seems, are fairly resilient and can be bombarded with higher doses of toxic drugs than most adults can tolerate. And better medications for handling the side effects and consequences of chemotherapy and radiation--severe nausea, vomiting, anemia and infections--help children respond better to intensive treatment...
Instead, Dodge & Cox believes the more vantage points there are the better. On the stocks side, 20 analysts track companies, waiting for chances to buy solid, long-term businesses on the cheap--a classic value-investor stance. When an analyst thinks a company is something Dodge & Cox would be well advised to hold for five years, the analyst makes the case to an investment-policy committee...