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AFFIRMED. A gold medal for PAUL HAMM, 22, U.S. gymnast; by a sports tribunal; in Lausanne, Switzerland. The Court of Arbitration for Sport, in a case brought by South Korean gymnast Yang Tae Young, decided that it would set a dangerous precedent to withdraw Hamm's medal, won at the Summer Olympics in Athens, despite a scoring error that cost bronze medalist Yang a crucial one-tenth of a point, which would have been enough to earn him the gold. AWARDED. to ALAN HOLLINGHURST, 50, British author; the Man Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty, the first novel with...
...produce bomb-grade material), and other unspecified sweeteners. Iran, which denies developing a bomb program but nonetheless insists on its right to develop the full range of nuclear energy infrastructure permissible under the NPT (which would dramatically shorten its time line to achieve weapons status should it withdraw from the treaty) reportedly plans to offer a deal of its own to satisfy Western concerns over its intentions. Still, nobody is particularly optimistic about a diplomatic solution to the standoff...
...President Bush justify the deaths of more than 1,000 U.S. troops in a war that is not necessary? No matter what Bush tells the world about fighting terrorism, Americans are now more in danger of being attacked. The President should withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq. The puppets installed there are walking corpses. The moment they are not protected by U.S.-supplied security forces, those officials will be hounded to death by the insurgents. There should be no shame for the U.S. in getting out of Iraq. Nats Onoja Agbo Lagos...
...business executives packed Tripoli hotels last week scouting for new deals in the oil-rich nation, Libya's leader made it clear that he was not a supporter of Washington's strategy in Iraq. "The best thing [the U.S. ] could do for the Iraqis and the Americans is to withdraw," Gaddafi told TIME. Gaddafi's second son, Seif al Islam, widely perceived as his father's likely political heir, pledged to stay out of the fight against terrorism, too. "We should not be engaged in the war on terror," he said. "This is a war between the West...
...Although the attack saw each rival insisting that the other's plan for national security was ill-judged - Latham argued the focus should be on the local region, while Howard urged Australians not to "cut and run" by choosing Labor's plan to withdraw Australia's relatively small military contingent from Iraq - attention soon drifted back to interest rates. And when the forecast budget surplus for 2004-05 doubled to $A5.3 billion, both parties suddenly had the money for extravagant promises...