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...Americans that the U.S. had done its damnedest before quietly pulling the plug on the enterprise. Bush isn't yet ready to blame anyone else. Instead, he has been waiting for months for this showdown with his war critics and now intends to prevail. He told journalist Robert Draper, author of the new book Dead Certain, that he was counting on Congress to continue a sustained military presence in Iraq through this year and into the presidency of whoever succeeds him. As early as May, Bush told Draper that the moment of truth would come in the fall...
...China made when one of its soldiers was killed by an Israeli air strike on a U.N. post in Lebanon last summer, there are only 1,400 Chinese troops serving in all U.N. peacekeeping missions worldwide.) "Is China playing a positive role in developing democracy [in Africa]?" asks Peter Draper of the South African Institute of International Affairs. "Largely not." Human Rights Watch goes further: China's policies in Africa, it claimed during the Beijing summit, have "propped up some of the continents' worst human-rights abusers...
...railway stations to monitor the air and make sure that no one’s putting anything harmful into the air supply,” he said. Another application of SP technology is the bioimaging of infectious organisms. In a collaborative effort among members of Harvard Medical School and Draper Laboratory, scientists are developing SP technology that would enable researchers to detect the movement of a single poliovirus through an artificial cell membrane. The new technology could act as a vaccine development tool, said Dale N. Larson, Harvard Medical School Director of the Technology and Engineering Center. The new system...
...Pink: Dorothy Draper, America's Most Fabulous Decorator (Pointed Leaf Press...
...Card party cut into a huge coconut cake and watched a slide show that White House photographer Eric Draper had assembled to commemorate Card's five-plus years in the West Wing, the second longest any Chief of Staff has served. The meal for the two-hour flight from Des Moines was chicken Marsala and tomato cucumber salad. The Air Force One crew presented Card with a jacket and a window from the plane inscribed with his name as an expression of gratitude. Card, a frequent guest at Camp David and a member of the "Hundred Degree Club...