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...Unfortunately, the athletic-shoe company I called first took a very long time getting back to me. Like past now. Same with the adult-beverage conglomerate and the hotel chain. I started to get worried when the cable station, broadcast network and sports league turned me down. There is nothing scarier than wanting to sell out and discovering that no one wants...
...speech. That may seem like a lot for a man who left Washington with a record-low 22% approval rating. But it's far from exorbitant on the world's most lucrative lecture circuit--one of the perks that prompted John Updike to dismiss the presidency as "a way station en route to the blessed condition of being an ex-President...
...trafficking and the crimes attendant to the black market. Streamlined criminal procedures have greatly improved the performance and reduced the cost of taking traffickers out of the equation...Sweden can now boast annual drug use rates less than half the average in West and Central Europe. (Read "The Way Station for Europe's Cocaine...
...party leader Mariano Rajoy went so far as to suggest that a key piece of physical evidence - a backpack loaded with explosives - may have been planted in order to lend credence to the Islamist theory. These doubts were fanned by the center-right newspaper El Mundo, and Catholic radio station COPE into a full-fledged conspiracy campaign. Yet even after the country's national court found absolutely no connection between ETA and the Madrid attacks, Rajoy said that his party would "continue to support" any further investigation. The Socialists, in turn, responded by accusing the opposition of exploiting the victims...
...time to avoid arrest or harassment. Just before dawn, two burly policemen hurled bricks at the home of Tahira Abdullah, 50, a women's rights activist. "They damaged my kitchen door - they were breaking in and entering," she said moments after her release from an Islamabad women's police station. "It is a sad day for Pakistan when the people we marched with for democracy against the dictatorships of General [Mohammed] Zia ul-Haq and General Musharraf arrest human-rights activists...