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...that Bush has been unable to, that the world is better with Saddam Hussein out of power and that, in the age of terror, America is the only nation that can lead. Given the President's recent troubles, his aides weren't worried that Bush might suffer by comparison. He has finally started facing the kind of hard questioning about the case he made for war that greets Blair with his morning coffee. Things got so desperate for Bush last week that at one point, in an effort to reiterate the underlying causes for war, he wound up inventing...
...Given the President's recent troubles, his aides weren't worried that Bush might suffer by comparison. He has finally started facing the kind of hard questioning about the case he made for war that greets Blair with his morning coffee. Things got so desperate for Bush last week that at one point, in an effort to reiterate the underlying causes for war, he wound up inventing a false one. Saddam Hussein didn't allow weapons inspectors into his country, he said, and therefore the U.S. was forced to go to war. If Blair had made the same charge...
Family farmers, whose herds average around 100 cows, suffer the most when conventional-milk prices are low; they lack the economies of scale of the large factory-style producers. But organic farming levels the playing field, because certain land-use requirements can be more difficult--or even logistically impossible--for larger farms to meet...
...hope generated by billions of dollars in promised aid has been dampened by the lack of significant progress on large-scale, job-producing projects such as repairing the nation's horrendous roads. Meanwhile, the country continues to suffer from numerous potentially crippling problems: corruption and lawlessness are pervasive; civil servants often don't get paid; Karzai's power is largely limited to Kabul; warlords rule the countryside; the Afghan National Army is years from being a legitimate security force; and Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani is warning that the massive proliferation of poppy production threatens to turn Afghanistan into a narco...
...tight security lead to several clashes between U.S. Secret Service and their Senegalese hosts. Local luminaries in the audience simply bypassed by the security checkpoint constructed on the dock, refusing to suffer the indignity of the metal detector streaming by arguing officials in traditional African one-piece garments that seemed to move independently of their owners. U.S. officials tried their best to gingerly manage the cultural differences, especially with local security forces. "If he wants to keep his gun he's going to have to wear this pin," said a frustrated U.S. Secret Service agent speaking through an interpreter...