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About Face VENEZUELA In an unexpected turnaround, President Hugo Chávez announced that he would accept the verdict - due in mid-February - of the National Electoral Council on the validity of an opposition petition for a recall vote. Organizers of the petition claim to have collected more than the 2.4 million signatures needed to trigger a vote, which might force Chávez to stand down...
...government were comprehensively cleared by Lord Hutton's inquiry into the death of government weapons-expert David Kelly, who killed himself last year after being named as a source for a BBC report that Blair's government had "sexed up" the case for war against Iraq. Hutton's verdict confounded widespread expectations that some blame, perhaps enough to unseat him, would attach to the Prime Minister. Instead, Hutton poured virtually all his acid on the BBC - for making "unfounded" charges about the integrity of Blair and his aides and then not correcting them or even properly investigating the government...
...never traveled on a Cunard ship before. The trick will be to keep up this momentum. Last week the company tried to extract every ounce of buzz it could from the naming ceremony, drawing thousands of veteran cruisers, journalists and European travel agents to tour the ship. The general verdict was highly positive, even if the ship's decor and amenities seemed to be straining to appeal to customers in different age and income groups. After his tour, Mike Driscoll, editor of Cruise Week, an industry newsletter, said, "They're not going after 65-year-olds who care about...
...frappuccinos. There are few concessions to French tastes: in a nation of diehard smokers, the company has boldly maintained its no-smoking rule. But in Time's highly caffeinated but unscientific poll of French patrons, the enthusiasm was almost surprising. "Bon" or even "très bon" was the verdict on the coffee. The ambience was pronounced "sympa" [friendly], the service "accueillant" [welcoming] - though in a country where waiters have a near-statutory duty to be surly that wouldn't seem to be a difficult accolade to achieve. The only criticism was reserved for the pastries, almost universally deemed...
...percent of undergraduates who said they disagree with the verdict remain split between “somewhat” and “strongly” opposing the outcome...