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Indeed, the man on the tape looked like Saddam, with his trademark mole and the small bump on his left cheek. He spoke with Saddam's characteristic enunciation, which includes a slight slurring of his words. When he visited a checkpoint at an intersection, smoky black clouds could be seen above the horizon, which could have come from the oil fires Iraqis have set around Baghdad to hinder U.S. pilots. It was 90 in Baghdad the day the tape was shown, and some of the men in the swarming crowds wore sweaters or leather jackets. But the temperature had been...
...concern I have is a budgetary concern. I don’t know how administration will handle [matters if] a slight over projection occurs,” she said. “There will have to be checks and balances between what optimistic professors say and what are probable enrollments...
...gesturing towards the sand behind them. In the major networks’ morning television studios, anchors were grasping coffee mugs and transitioning smoothly between updates on Survivor and updates on America at War (as CBS has entitled its coverage of the current conflict), with no more segue than a slight deepening of their frowns. I flicked through the channels, but each of the morning shows featured the same peculiar pastiche of weather reports, human-interest stories and war. Every time the migration of little cartoon suns across the weather map lulled me into a comfortable state of sloth, the camera...
...workers began "laughing and dancing and hugging one another," recalled his aide, former pro-football player Roosevelt Grier. Around midnight Kennedy went downstairs and delivered a rousing speech to 1,800 supporters in the ballroom. He then exited through the hotel's pantry, where at 12:16 a.m., a slight, dark-haired Palestinian named Sirhan Sirhan pulled out a .22 cal. revolver, fired eight shots and fatally wounded the candidate. For a stricken America, it revived memories of the killings of Kennedy's brother John and of Martin Luther King Jr. and shattered the dreams of those yearning...
...whether the designer is God.) The major proponents of intelligent design include scientists who are more successful at catching the attention of the media than their scientific colleagues. The problem is that the supporters of design have serious internal disagreements. Refute one, and another will pop up with a slight variation on the argument. As a result, publications that run pieces on design get hit with an explosion of letters that look like a debate. But the internal debate is actually helpful to design proponents trying to get themselves heard...