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...Bush returns to Mississippi and Louisiana on Tuesday, and on Thursday travels to the Ronald Reagan Building to deliver what his staff is billing as a new speech about the war on terror. Oh, and remember Social Security? Many Republicans on Capitol Hill believe that Katrina diminished the already slim chances that a significant bill will pass this year. But on Wednesday, he will invite still cameras into the Roosevelt Room to show him meeting with the President?s Commission to Strengthen Social Security. Ironically, that divisive issue will give the president momentary respite in a week of friendly fire...
...notion of “What if?” ultimately proved too glaring for Herrmann to ignore. He figured that if he pitched for the Crimson in 2006 and did poorly, or got hurt once again, the prospect of another contract coming along would be slim...
...that's just the obvious stuff. The click wheel on the front had to be reinvented to fit the Nano's ridiculously slim 6.9-mm profile. Ditto the battery and chips. "We use every fraction of a millimeter of space to get things in there," says Apple senior vice president Phil Schiller. "It's like a puzzle to fit all that stuff together. It has the tightest tolerances of anything we've ever made in the history of this company...
...Tall, slim and stern-faced, Tiazy seeks out Jim Peter, the chairman of the local Crime Prevention Committee, a grassroots initiative of ramsi. "We work very closely with the community," says Tiazy, who spends time in the area's outer islands educating people about ways to head off crime. "In the past we used informers to get information. Now we rely on these bodies." As the local explosives expert, Tiazy is also responsible for dealing with the torpedoes and other old ordnance that islanders still occasionally stumble upon 60 years after the end of World War II in the Pacific...
...also the strongest party in the east, at 34%. The conservative cdu and its sister party, the csu, are running at 44% nationally, compared to 24% for the ruling spd. If the cdu does win, the strength of Linkspartei.pds in the east could make the party's majority so slim that it's forced into a coalition with the spd. The result: political stalemate. "It could be that the balance of power is even narrower," says Christian Pestalozza, a law professor at Berlin's Free University...