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Mission to Mars "Bush's Mars plan is an election-year strategy: a weapon of mass distraction designed to divert our attention from the economy." Gail Moore San Francisco...
...thought it was a ridiculous waste of money. Bush's State of the Union address seemed, even to sympathetic Republicans, to have been mailed in, with the vision of a grocery list. His popularity numbers dropped after he gave it. Next came the admission by the Administration's handpicked weapons hunter, David Kay, that after hundreds of interviews and months of hunting, we had not found any weapon stockpiles after all. Nor was the link between Saddam and al-Qaeda ever proved. Meanwhile, that much vaunted Medicare bill, which deficit hawks already found impossibly expensive at $400 billion, will probably...
...evacuation of three Senate office buildings last week, neither did the ricin found under a mail-opening machine on Capitol Hill. Ricin is a potent enough poison , and terrorist groups from al-Qaeda to the Iraq-based Ansar al-Islam have reportedly produced it for use as a biological weapon. So, evidently, did Saddam Hussein before the first Gulf...
...burdens, overuse of havens can raise red flags. Indeed, in December 2002, a year before Parmalat blew up, a Merrill Lynch analyst in London, Joanna Speed, downgraded the company to "sell" from "buy" in part because of its "inefficient, opaque and complex" balance sheet. Shame can be a useful weapon. At a recent hearing by a U.S. Senate committee, senior executives of the accounting firm KPMG were accused of marketing aggressive and potentially illegal tax shelters that netted the firm at least $124 million in fees. The committee's ranking member, Carl Levin, excoriated the firm's leaders in public...
...much has changed in 10 months that have since passed. Fully acclimated to the collegiate swimming scene, Cromwell has blossomed into a top weapon for the Crimson thanks in large part to his additional maturity and unceasing work ethic...