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...DIED. PAUL SIMON, 75, liberal Democratic congressman and two-term senator from Illinois who ran unsuccessfully for President in 1988; in Springfield, Illinois. Simon, who wore a trademark bow tie and large glasses, argued for shifting spending from the military to social programs, but favored balanced budgets. The son of American missionaries to China, he was a key congressional backer of Taiwan...
...would rather do without it (which is one interpretation of last week's memo limiting the countries whose firms will be able to bid for prime contracts in Iraq). And the insurgency will not end overnight. Remember: asymmetric warfare is aptly named. A mere handful of terrorists can tie up large armies for years - indeed decades. Iraq is dripping with high explosives, guns and rocket-propelled grenades, and awash in angry young men who know how to use them and who would like to kill as many Americans as they...
...What do these regulations really mean?” he asks in his film. “Do they mean a woman can’t wear a tie or a man can’t wear a dress? Do they mean you can’t wear white after Labor...
...Crimson allowed BC to tie it back up on the power play about nine minutes later. The play was set up the same way—with Eaves working behind the net—but this time he slipped a pass to the bottom of the circle, where Tony Voce was there for the one-timer...
Pappin, who arrived with unerring punctuality decked out in a tuxedo and a red bow tie, is having none of this faux modesty. After disappointing the crowd by announcing that he isn’t planning to come out of the closet tonight, he regales them with the ironic story of his longtime family friendship with former President Bill Clinton. “I don’t know if he’s so aware of the irony—he’s probably not as updated on me as I am on him,” Pappin...