Word: thingness
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...everyone agreed that the Iraq war was a good thing, the British debate about the Iraq campaign and its messy aftermath would be drained of the roiling anger that continues to define it. But there would still be questions about Britain's role and legacy in Iraq, unresolved by two earlier inquiries. The 2003 Hutton Inquiry restricted its gaze to the circumstances around the death of a British official named David Kelly, who had criticized the government's dossier on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMD). A year later, the Butler Inquiry examined the quality of intelligence that informed...
...employees. But rather than fight over the merits of the case, both sides have spent the past few weeks arguing that they should win because what they plan to do with the money is more worthy than what the other side has planned. "You do see this sort of thing in cases that involve people with dubious reputations in the public eye," says James Cox, a law professor at Duke University. "And I do think a desire to improve his public reputation is what is driving Greenberg in this case." (See the top 10 worst business deals of the past...
...consistent in their reasons for pursuing the case, and that the other side is mischaracterizing their intentions. A spokesman for AIG says, "We have not changed a whit our determination to restore to the trust that which was wrongfully taken from it." In this whole disagreement, of course, one thing is certain: There are likely to be some fireworks when this case begins on Monday...
...think the thing about Jim is that he's very rarely willing to take chances. He's more comfortable being in a stable job where he's paid what he's paid and he does what he does, even though I think that there's something bubbling beneath him that wants him to go somewhere else. I hope that I'm the type of guy who, when I have a big idea or a big aspiration, I at least give it a shot...
...Bird." Let it be noted that this visit came after she'd met the Queen of England at Buckingham Palace and welcomed Stevie Wonder to the White House and enjoyed all kinds of other not-too-bad perks of being First Lady. "I think it's probably the best thing I've done so far in the White House...