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Just hours after President Bush indicated that he would soon ask Congress to vote on whether to wage war against Iraq, he dispatched one of his best men to make the case. When Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made his way last Wednesday to a secure, windowless room on the top floor of the Capitol, nearly three-quarters of the Senators awaited him. They were confronting one of the gravest decisions lawmakers can face--sending troops into battle--and they expected to see the intelligence Rumsfeld and other Bush Administration officials have said would clinch the case that Saddam Hussein must...
...Ritter was once among those who accused Iraq of flouting international law. Now, he says, it is the U.S. that "threatens to put at risk the accepted foundations of international law. This is a very dangerous thing." Ritter, 41, who says his goal in going to Baghdad was to "wage peace," makes an unlikely anti war activist. He grew up in a military family and became an intelligence officer after college, where he studied Soviet history. Even early in his career, Ritter courted controversy. In 1991, after his first marriage - to his college sweetheart - ended, he married a Russian woman...
Supportkids maintains that it has no way of knowing whether checks are government intercepts or wage garnishments that Supportkids put in place. It says its policy is not to charge fees on funds that its 400 "enforcers" do not collect. But Paula Gardner, who resigned as an enforcer at Supportkids earlier this year, says that policy meant little in practice. "We were asked to have employers reroute wage-garnishment payments to Supportkids whether we filed those garnishments or not," she says. She recalls her first case in November of last year. "We did nothing for it, and Supportkids took...
...think of solutions and turned to the welcoming, numbing embrace of death. Men like Abu al-Fahed would have made unlikely martyrs before these two years of bloodshed. With five children, he would not have gone out to die on a suicide mission and leave his family without a wage earner. And though he is religious, like most Palestinians, he is no fundamentalist with dreams of paradise. Jobless because Israel no longer allows laborers like him to enter the country to work, faced with relentless television images of Israeli violence and surrounded by poverty, death and despair, he awaits...
...recover $271 million from itv Digital's parent companies, Carlton and Granada. And although the Football League has signed a new four-year deal with BSkyB, its $145 million price tag falls far short of the original - as a result, some clubs have released players in order to cut wage bills. With a glut of talent on the market and clubs facing shrinking revenues, Summerbee and McKinlay - who hope they will be picked up by Leicester City on a permanent basis - could be the first of many footballers taking to the pitch for love alone...