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...President and his alleged corporate cronies—“Ken Lay and the boys at Enron”—for subverting the will of the people. But he also sought to distance himself from his Democratic competitors, faulting them for not opposing Bush with enough vigor...
...into negotiations to end its nuclear weapons program, attending a Group of Eight meeting of the world's capitalist powers and, last week, leading the developing world to demand more benefits from the World Trade Organization. Now comes a space effort designed to unify the country and display national vigor. Along the way, Beijing will pick up military technologies and, no doubt, some catchy consumer items to match the smoke detectors and cordless vacuum cleaners born of nasa. Above all, the piloted space program is good propaganda. "Just as England went to North America and made it British, China needs...
...After nursing their wounds and regrouping across the border in Pakistan, Afghanistan's former rulers have found both a fresh strategy and renewed vigor to cause trouble back home. A bus bombing that killed 15 people (including six children) in Helmand province on Aug. 13 kicked off perhaps Afghanistan's bloodiest week since the Taliban fell in late 2001. Four days later, hundreds of guerrillas attacked a police station in Paktika province and killed seven Afghan policemen. Four more cops were taken hostage during another raid nearby, and last Monday, nine policemen were murdered by heavily armed gunmen in Logar...
...would be my pledge that the University will, in the future as in the past, uphold the commitment to academic freedom with all the vigor that we can,” Summers said...
...hazy skies could not deter the Quincy House resident’s passion for the stars. And so he read about what he could not see. The summer after 10th grade, Rudenstine dove into some heavy reading on astronomy, devouring 400-page scientific tomes with vigor. Since that summer, Rudenstine has been officially hooked on star-spotting. Rudenstine’s fondest memories of traveling through the Himalayas during his year off after high school are of his nighttime sky observations. “There was this unbelievable meteor shower,” he says...