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...fear," Bush declared as he signed the Iraq resolution. Or put another way, all those credulous Clinton folks who cut deals with North Korea to stall its nuclear program, who tossed some bombs on Iraq and walked away, merely postponed the inevitable while making things worse. What was swept under the rug, the hawks say, we are now pulling out and confronting, with an ounce of prevention if possible, a pound of cure if we must...
...Sharif in northern Afghanistan to show off the couple's new baby to relatives. So Khan set off after them, traveling for a week by hitching rides on buses and trucks that were headed over icy, 4,800-m mountain ranges. But soon after he arrived, the war swept him away. After the U.S.-backed Northern Alliance captured Mazar-i-Sharif from the Taliban, his parents stopped hearing from him. "We were sure he'd been killed," says Azeem. Khan was a Pashtun, and the Uzbek conquerors of the city hated Pashtuns...
...Koizumi swept into office in April 2001 amid a wave of popular optimism. Eighteen months later, none of his mighty promises?such as privatizing bloated state-run companies and slashing wasteful public works projects?have come to pass. Relentless political opposition is partly to blame, as is capricious support from erstwhile allies in his own camp, who can't seem to decide if they need him more than he needs them or vice versa. In the meantime, nonperforming loans at the nation's banks have ballooned to between $420 billion and $1.05 trillion, the stock market flirts with 20-year...
They booed two acts from the stage on Friday. A “sandman” swept the rejected performers into the wings with a large...
...Stanford swept the meet, winning both the men’s and women’s titles...