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...distressing view of Iraq's future. According to a U.S. official familiar with the estimate, it envisions three possible scenarios for how events might unfold over the next 18 months. The official says the estimate foresees, "at best, a situation that would be, in terms of security, tenuous and, at worst, a trend line that could point in the direction of a civil...
...role of the CIA is to look at different scenarios," McClellan said. But all three CIA scenarios were awful, I pointed out. The best case was "tenuous stability," a continuation of the sapping insurgency we're seeing...
...when those modest successes provided only a tenuous lead, Dawson effortlessly ratcheted his play up a notch. Just moments into the second quarter, the speedster absorbed a crushing hit on second-and-seven, then launched himself forward just across the 29-yard line for an eight-yard pickup...
...just finished his sophomore year at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. "If you've got speed, it really shouldn't matter." Unless a positive drug test arises, the track team not only has its speed, but also its credibility. Still, even the athletes understand the public trust is tenuous. "The faster I run," says Lauryn Williams, 20, who won two medals, a 100-m silver and 4X100 relay gold, at these Olympics, "the less people will believe I am clean." As the first entrant in the post-BALCO era, U.S. track and field shot off the starting blocks in Athens...
...Jiang has not been formally arrested, nor has he been charged with a crime, but that only makes his situation more tenuous. Beijing may choose to keep him locked up indefinitely-or until he is intimidated into an admission of incorrect thinking. So far, he is not backing down. "His position on the probity of his opinions hasn't changed," says one hospital colleague. But after this ordeal, Jiang may no longer feel safe making those opinions public...