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Public approval of Bush's handling of Iraq remains higher than the public assessment of how he has managed the economy. Concerns like Dietz's may be why 61% in the TIME/CNN poll said they believe a war with Iraq would weaken the economy. Such worries also help explain why Americans don't seem to have much appetite for a long war--or a long cleanup. The cost of a prolonged engagement may be why half said the U.S. should stay in Iraq only as long as it takes to stabilize the country rather than undertake the much lengthier task...
...reject any misguided proposals the commission endorses, uphold Title IX and urge its vigorous enforcement. Otherwise he—and ultimately the Bush administration—will have to defend their inexcusable actions to more than half of the population. Title IX helped many women and any attempt to weaken this landmark law will not escape their notice...
...State Department (as has the A.U.C., an umbrella group of vicious right-wing paramilitary armies, and a smaller leftist group known as the E.L.N.). Last week, Uribe convinced the U.N. Security Council to label them as such; and the usually timid Organization of American States pledged to help weaken the FARC, whose land-reform ideology has been poisoned by criminal enterprise. FARC rakes in an estimated $1 billion a year, largely by protecting cocaine traffic. Uribe gained an important victory when the E.U. promised to take "more decisive steps" to combat Colombia's "plague." His government is currently trying Niall...
Despite this fresh evidence, Pakistani police working on the Pearl case notice a distinct cooling in their superiors' interest. Saeed and his co-defendants are appealing the verdict, and Karim's testimony may weaken the government's case that Saeed was both ringleader of the plot and Pearl's executioner. Until the Pakistani Supreme Court rules on Saeed's appeal, say police, it is doubtful that kidnapping charges will be brought against Karim, who is in custody. Meanwhile, the search is on for Mohammed, who investigators think is still hiding in Pakistan. --By Tim McGirk
This past fall, fearing that the planning board would weaken their proposal, the neighborhood submitted an untouched copy of the their zoning recommendations directly to the council...