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...doors that lawmakers and Bush aides feel it is safe to debate the implications of waging war against a country that has not first attacked the U.S. or its interests. As Rice briefed a group of House members last week, a Democrat challenged her argument for a pre-emptive strike. By that reasoning, he said, we should have invaded the Soviet Union in 1948 to keep them from getting nuclear weapons. "In light of 50 years of bondage of Eastern Europe," Rice replied, "that was probably a reasonable thing...
...Europe. In addition to the evidence linking Bensaïd and Belkacem to the 1995 blasts, French prosecutors assert there are records of wire transfers from a suspected Islamist named Rachid Ramda, as well as the duo's own detailed accounting of how that money was spent to prepare strikes. Terrorist attacks are relatively inexpensive. According to investigators' estimates, the entire 1995 Paris campaign cost no more than $19,000, while the gas-tanker bombing of a synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia by an al-Qaeda assailant in April this year, which killed 21, cost a fraction of that. Ramda...
...According to a study by the Laugh Lab at Hertfordshire University Wiseman's conclusions may strike you as counterintuitive. Germans, for instance, top the list of the world's funniest, not because they are comedic geniuses but because they laugh at anything. (Do not laugh at that unless you are German. It was not a joke.) The least amused: Canada, by a country mile. "The result was clear and consistent throughout the whole thing," Wiseman says. They just didn't find much to laugh about. I don't care so much about what made Germany laugh, or what made Canada...
...Ulysses in 1952, after the failure of his first two solo shows. But instead of making his art more accessible - his paintings had been criticized as "nearly blank" - he traveled farther into abstraction. Ulysses and its companions, the inkier Day Before One (1951) and the sable Prometheus Bound (1952), strike the viewer with the primeval and inexplicable force of Stonehenge monoliths. These works need to be seen to be believed. "There is no substitute for the personal experience of these paintings," says Ann Temkin of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Barnett Newman," curated by Temkin, offers the chance to encounter...
...world record by just one-tenth of a second. On Oct. 13 she runs her second marathon, in Chicago, and will be out in the front as usual, not only from the start, but probably at the end too. DOPING Testing Times For Enforcers In a pre-emptive strike against genetically enhanced muscles, the International Olympic Committee and the World Anti-Doping Agency last week added "genetic doping" to their list of prohibited substances and methods. The ban, which defines the problem as the nontherapeutic use of genetic elements and/or cells that can enhance performance, will come into effect from...