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...From the standpoint of Washington's hard-liners--those who insist that you can't get rid of the threat from Saddam's weapons of mass destruction without getting rid of Saddam--just going to the U.N. has risks. Diplomatic negotiations, with their shuffled compromises and ambiguous texts, are not the favorite terrain of the moral-clarity crowd, who need no fresh justification to get rid of Saddam. A White House aide says sharply, "We haven't said anything about a new [Security Council] resolution." But in practice, both American and foreign diplomats are working on the assumption that...
...It’s certainly changed the way we recruit,” Murphy said. “From the standpoint of emphasizing retention, we absolutely must get serious football players. We just can’t afford to lose a kid once they matriculate to Harvard...
...We’re not playing freshmen. The kids up from will at least be juniors and seniors,” Murphy said last week. “From that standpoint, we will have high expectations even though we don’t have the luxuries of last year’s starters. They’re not particularly young guys. That’s the good news. The bad news is that they’re not very experienced...
...From the standpoint of Washington's hard-liners - those who insist that you can't get rid of the threat from Saddam's weapons of mass destruction without getting rid of Saddam - just going to the U.N. has risks. Diplomatic negotiations, with their shuffled compromises and ambiguous texts, are not the favorite terrain of the moral-clarity crowd, who need no fresh justification to get rid of Saddam. A White House aide says sharply, "We haven't said anything about a new [Security Council] resolution." But in practice, both American and foreign diplomats are working on the assumption that...
From a saturation standpoint, it's hard to get past Ashanti's Foolish. Foolish was the No. 1 song in the country for 11 weeks, mostly on the strength of a hook borrowed from the Notorious B.I.G.'s 1995 summer hit One More Chance. Ashanti is smart enough to let the hook do the bulk of the work while her smooth voice flutters around creating a sense of longing. In a thin field, it's summer's best tortured ballad. Without Me is another chapter in Eminem's romance with himself. While a woolly sax laughs in the background...