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...Everything seemed to be going wrong for Bush last week, even the metaphors. On the way to the Allen fund raiser, we stopped for a photo op at a picturesque farm stand outside Richmond. There was a pile of pumpkins sitting on a flatbed truck, and both Allen and Bush tried to hoist an aesthetically pleasing pumpkin by the stem. Both stems snapped. "If you break it, you pay for it, Mr. President," said Richard Keil of Bloomberg News, echoing Colin Powell's famous rule at the outset of the Iraq war. Bush didn't seem to get the joke...
...covered by the sanctions, such as oil and food supplies - will go a long way to determining the future of the baby-faced dictator in Pyongyang. So far, say traders, Dandong residents and others involved in the cross-border commerce say it's been largely business as usual. A truck driver who gives his name only as Li points at the 15 or so vehicles waiting to pass through customs for inspection before crossing the Yalu. "The inspections are a little stricter, but it's really just for show," he says. "They poke around a bit and then...
...appears to have something quite different in mind. "Sanctions are the signal, not the goal," said a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman on Thursday, in a statement that appeared to criticize the U.S. for seeking to "expand" the sanctions from those adopted by the Security Council. Some reported inspection of truck traffic at the border aside, it's pretty much business as usual between China and North Korea. "We need to make North Korea realize it will pay a high price [for testing nuclear weapons]," said Wu Bangguo, deputy leader of China's ruling Communist Party on Monday. But, he added...
...asked to report at 8 a.m. to the courthouse in Ayer, Mass.—which is more than 30 miles from Harvard Yard. But he said the cab he wound up taking that morning broke down en route, forcing him to wait several hours for a tow truck to arrive and take him back to Boston.Winston says that he finds the system “ridiculous” because he thinks that students who are summoned for jury duty are often not selected to serve in the actual trial.But Visiting Professor of Law Shari S. Diamond says that students...
...government center in a small town to kidnap the mayor, since they have a problem with any form of government that does not include regular beheadings and women wearing burqahs. There were seven of them. As they brought the mayor out to put him in a pick-up truck to take him off to be beheaded (on video, as usual), one of the Bad Guys put down his machine gun so that he could tie the mayor's hands. The mayor took the opportunity to pick up the machine gun and drill five of the Bad Guys. The other...