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Anti-American actions have power

The letter addressed to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan from Naji Sabri, the Iraqi foreign minister, summed it up perfectly: “You may recall the huge clamor fabricated by the [Bush] administration in the biggest and most wicked slander against Iraq…when they disseminated the claim that Iraq had perhaps produced or was on its way to produce nuclear weapons.”

Even Baghdad’s pundits are privy to our antics.

Who cares? Midterm elections are over, anyway.

In an unexpected move last week, Iraqi officials agreed to inclusive access “without conditions” by U.N. weapons inspectors. The accord came just five days after its unanimous approval from the U.N. Security Council and less than 24 hours after the Iraqi parliament voted down the agreement. The final verdict seems to have come from none other than Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
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Hey Democrats, get a personality

(U-WIRE) SAN DIEGO—Ask any random person walking down the street about his political affiliation, and as long as he isn’t carrying a gun or wearing a T-shirt made of hemp, he’ll tell you he’s a moderate. But what is a “moderate” anyway? What do moderates believe? There is no answer to this question, since moderates constantly change what they believe.
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Tollway: commuter money pit

Illinois tollway authorities bowed to political pressure and announced Nov. 13 that talks of nearly doubling the current 40-cent fare are off. Consumers can breathe a sigh of relief that the mismanaged system won’t be ripping them off any further.
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Carter should be Columbia’s cash cow, not the other way around

As much as I enjoy blaming President Warrick L. Carter for all of the problems we have at this school, I cannot in good faith blame him for the decrease in Columbia’s endowment. Just about all colleges lost some of their endowments last year—and it seems this year will be no exception.

Columbia’s endowment currently stands at $46 million, down about $13 million from $59 million in 2000. Some of the best and most prestigious colleges in the country have reported what they call drastic losses in endowment funds and donations.
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