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...Chafee Gives the G.O.P. Many Reasons to Smile The Rhode Island senator's key victory may signal that moderates aren't all dead and that incumbents aren't necessarily doomed
...sign that the U.S. military is readjusting to fight what it calls "the long war" against terrorism, the Pentagon is expected to announce shortly the creation of a military command focusing on the world's most neglected region: Africa. The move would signal a shift from a cold war--era posture toward one emphasizing proactive, preventive measures...
...previous album, Aguilera became a much bigger story than her music, largely because she appeared to have arrived on the set of the video for her song Dirrty direct from an intergalactic hooker convention. (She earned that extra r.) Aguilera's latest is titled Back to Basics, a signal that she's put away the assless chaps and is ready to focus. Basics, already the top-selling album in the country, sprawls over two discs, the lesser of which is dedicated to the singers who have inspired her. On Back in the Day, over vinyl scratches and a minimalist beat...
...Meanwhile, business owners like Mullen, of Bottom of the Cup Tea Room, are waiting for the figurative tea leaves to signal better times ahead. "People from other parts of the nation are concerned about the water, the air and the seafood, of all things," Mullen says, as a couple of middle-aged tourists negotiate a price for a double psychic reading. But he's determined to ride out the post-hurricane storm. "We're not going anywhere," he adds. "It's just gonna be a long haul." Far too long, unless more visitors themselves make the haul...
...some public academic institutions, and impose repressive Islamic codes that have been ignored here since the late 1990s. Because the Iranian system is composed of ministries with overlapping mandates and multiple security apparatuses that often act upon their own initiative, it is difficult to tell whether these measures signal a government-wide crackdown, or the individual efforts of radical government appointees emboldened by the Islamic conservatism of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...