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More surprising is that, despite the army of Geppettos in Bush’s propaganda machine, Bush seems for the first time at a loss for new answers on Iraq. But even as he staggers through the mire of public suspicion, there is still hope for Bush where Blair is doomed. Sometimes the best answers are also the most simple, and Bush’s path to political redemption is facile enough to remember without a teleprompter: “I’m sorry...
...pressure to apply to the North or run such a tough interdiction regime that Pyongyang responds with more provocations like the one along the DMZ last week. That in turn could prompt China to abandon its efforts to nudge the North into making concessions. Overhanging all this is the suspicion that in the end, North Korea is simply dead set on getting nukes, no matter what the cost. "We need nuclear weapons to survive if the U.S. continues to isolate and pressure us," North Korea's deputy ambassador to the U.N. told a South Korean newspaper on July...
...claiming to represent ETA - By Jane Walker Kremlin Controversy RUSSIA The confrontation between the Kremlin and Mikhail Khodorkovsky turned uglier, with the nation's richest man warning that hard-liners might level more charges against his Yukos oil corporation. Lawyers for Alexei Pichugin, the senior Yukos official detained on suspicion of murder, claimed investigators had spiked his coffee with drugs during interrogation. Meanwhile, a judge ruled to keep a key Khodorkovsky business associate, billionaire Platon Lebedev, in prison pending an investigation into embezzlement charges. Reflecting the growing concern in business circles about the case, Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov said those...
...colors, the very antithesis of the grimy Amsterdam "head shops" that peddle marijuana, cheap drug paraphernalia, a few legal uppers and rock-star T shirts. Here the products, which include €170 bongs, are pricey on purpose. "We wanted to have the highest quality and remain far from any suspicion," says Secci, adding that the upscale rates discourage the wrong kind of clientele. No one under 18 is permitted in the store. Displayed along the far wall are the featured "smart" products that go on sale this week - pills and liquids billed as substitutes for all-night rave fuels like...
...given more opportunity to choose their own leaders. De Mello has already played a major, if discreet, role in helping Bremer create the Governing Council. He reportedly serves as an honest broker between Bremer and constituencies in and around Iraq to which he has no access because of suspicion and hostility towards the U.S. De Mello, for example, reportedly played the major role in persuading some of the key Shiite parties to join the Council - and also in persuading Bremer to grant it wider powers...