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...When [Bush Sr. and I] watched [current President Bush] speaking to the nation on the 11th and the day after at the U. N., we were in awe,” she said. “Can this be the same miserable little kid I had to threaten with death and destruction to get him to clean his room...
Portland may be even more dangerous than its No. 5 ranking indicates, having won its last five games since the return of top scorer Christine Sinclair, last year’s tournament offensive MVP. Sinclair missed Portland’s first two games while playing in the U-19 Worlds, where she tallied 10 goals for the Canadian team...
...strike, Begin predicted that the name “Osirak” would be “remembered and cherished by generations to come.” His speech was remarkably prescient, given the events of the past two decades. After the Gulf War ended in 1991, then-U.S. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney specifically thanked Israel for the 1981 action that had made victory possible. Indeed, the Economist magazine recently noted that if Saddam “had already had nuclear weapons when he invaded Kuwait 11 years ago, he might still be there...
...Ottoman Empire after World War I--is a fragile state that could easily break up amid yet more violence. But above all, because Arab governments are convinced that America is so loathed on "the street" that a war might see instability cartwheel throughout the region, shaking pro-U.S. governments in Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. "Public opinion will react extremely negatively if any Arab country is bombed," says an Arab diplomat. "The bombing and the refugees will be on TV from...
...chairman Harvey L. Pitt on Aug. 29 that "the implementation of some of the provisions of the Act might have undesirable extraterritorial consequences or they might create unnecessary difficulties for European companies." Among his concerns: a new U.S. body that will oversee auditing firms will regulate non-U.S. auditors and have access to internal audit documents. This would likely breach national professional-secrecy laws in Europe and "constitute a wholly unnecessary and burdensome second layer of public oversight for E.U. audit firms," Bolkestein wrote. The sec has in the past been willing to treat listed foreign companies more flexibly...