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...assure reporters that he nonetheless believed "the president made the right decision." The question of how Colin Powell resolves his internal conflicts over being part of an administration with which he is at odds on so many foreign policy questions must be left to his biographers. But by letting slip his obvious doubt that the war was necessary given the absence of a "real and present danger" from Iraq, the Secretary of State has teed up the administration for a devastating critique...
...week. "It is just flipping unbelievable," Johnson wrote in the Daily Telegraph. His party's nemesis, he added, "is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness." The escape artist, of course, was Prime Minister Tony Blair, who had managed to slip out of a political bind - make that two of them - that could have forced him from office. On Tuesday, Blair squeezed a scant five-vote victory - despite Labour's 161-vote majority in the House of Commons - to clear the path of a bill to charge students more to attend...
...second consecutive night, the Harvard men’s basketball team saw a 14-point first-half lead largely slip away by halftime before watching its opponent reverse its early shooting woes to pull away in the second half for a double-digit victory...
...always of professional quality. When Tom Cruise says "I would happily kill you for free," it is translated as "At any time, I can back off.") Copies bought in Moscow and New Delhi even list addresses for the pirate "copyright holders." They are likely fake, added to help slip bootlegs past customs agents, Ellis says...
...There is still war somewhere," says Deborah Ayen, a mother of five in Mayenwal. "So we still fear." A number of donors - the U.N., the E.U., the Arab League and usaid - are promising help in the reconstruction of the south. But many worry that the region could slip back into chaos if the southerners feel they are getting less than their share. Almost every family owns a gun - often their only brush with modernity. And while the south was unified in its fight against the central government, the geographically and ethnically fragmented region is not a natural political entity...