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...House years, I should have brought a cold compress. Fleischer spends much of the book knocking the press, as you might expect. Such criticism isn't the problem; he makes some good points and as a partisan booster of the President he is entitled, like all before him, to swing back at the press corps...
...taxes are starting to play for the opposition Conservatives. Polls indicate that 11% of people who voted Labour in 2001 are so turned off by Blair they might stay home, possibly driving turnout down to a historic low of 50%. Few think Labour could really lose; a huge swing, more than 10%, would be needed to boot Blair out. But with a low turnout, surprises on the margins could trim Labour's current 161-seat majority and undermine Blair's authority in what he has declared will be his final term...
...flatly denied taking steroids, and Jose Canseco, an admitted abuser, McGwire essentially took the Fifth. Mighty McGwire, the man whose eclipse of Roger Maris' home-run record galvanized a nation and who became this magazine's 1998 Hero of the Year, tried to draw a walk rather than swing for the fences. Instead, he struck out looking, and looked bad doing...
Rice needed all those moves and more last week, as she shuttled across Asia on her first swing through that region. What she brought back home was not immediately tangible. Unable to win from India or Pakistan an agreement to halt participation in a natural-gas pipeline from Iran, a country that the U.S. would like to isolate, she repeatedly emphasized that Washington backs recent efforts by both nations to mend their 58-year bitter dispute over the divided region of Kashmir. After stops in Afghanistan and Tokyo, where she called for greater democracy across Asia, Rice moved...
...knowledge” introduced in esoteric classes like Literature and Arts C-42, “Constructing the Samurai” and Literature and Arts B-31, “The Portrait.” No argument here—undergrads have wasted too much time learning about the Swing Era and too little understanding the foundations of the Western canon...