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...Hawks like Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Deputy Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Defense Policy Board chief Richard Perle strongly believe that after years of American sanctions and periodic air assaults, the Iraqi leader is weaker than most people believe. Rumsfeld has been so determined to find a rationale for an attack that on 10 separate occasions he asked the CIA to find evidence linking Iraq to the terror attacks of Sept. 11. The intelligence agency repeatedly came back empty-handed. The best hope for Iraqi ties to the attack - a report that lead hijacker Mohamed Atta met with an Iraqi...
...doesn't know how to sort out this internal catfight or just doesn't want to. Sometimes, the only advisers Bush hears are the ones who already agree. That's partly because the National Security Council, the little agency in the White House for settling such policy differences, is weaker than it has been since the latter part of the Reagan Administration. Run by Condoleezza Rice, the nsc struggled along until recently with an Afghan expert in charge of the Middle East. A Rice critic says that when the pro-Israel players in the Pentagon and Cheney's office...
...Especially in the current weaker environment for both investment and giving, we cannot risk the health of our academic programs by permitting deficits to grow,” University Provost Steven E. Hyman writes in an e-mail...
Still, although the Crimson managed to avoid becoming complacent and suffering a letdown against a weaker opponent, the players weren’t entirely pleased with their performance...
Outshining his counterpart from Harvard, despite the pair of losses, was Brown sophomore goalie Yann Danis. Danis rebounded from a weaker performance on Friday night in which he surrendered rebounds on most Harvard shots, allowing four goals on 35 shots. On Saturday, however, Danis stopped an incredible 66 shots—a Harvard record by an opposing goaltender—in the decisive game of the series...