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There’s a good chance that Cornell could be a No. 1 seed, which could impact where the Crimson would go because, in a policy reaffirmed by a report earlier this month, the NCAA selection committee tries to avoid first-round games between conference opponents...
After Blix reports, deliberations in New York City are bound to take a week or so. And it's a given that Saddam will try to pull some diplomatic stunts to avoid an invasion, as he did in 1991, although President George W. Bush last week made it plain that the U.S. would not tolerate such a "last-minute game of deception. The game is over." So it will probably be sometime during those moonless nights at the beginning of March that the diplomatic phase will finally end and the military one begin. The timing of that endgame has apparently...
...private two-day meeting at a nondescript downtown hotel. The Iraqis--engineers and economists invited by U.S. officials and intimately familiar with their country's oil industry--spoke in English, not Arabic, for the benefit of American observers. Most of the Iraqis insisted on keeping their identities secret to avoid retaliation from Baghdad. But there was no mystery as to their purpose: the men had gathered to prepare for the struggle over Iraq's oil riches that will start the day U.S. forces drive Saddam Hussein from power...
Have deficits lost their political sting? This Administration apparently thinks so. The budget proposal released by President Bush last week projects a deficit of more than $300 billion for each of the next few years. That's a far cry from Bush's election-year pledge to avoid red ink--though he now insists he made an exception for times of war, recession or national emergency. "A balanced budget is a high priority for this Administration," says Mitch Daniels, Bush's budget director. "It is not the top or the only priority." Republican consultants are betting the White House will...
...plans to ride into the zone on a horse and cart, singing an abusive song about the mayor. But it is a testament to how desperate traffic conditions have become that Livingstone is pushing ahead with the plan anyway. "It's not something we would do if we could avoid it," he said last week on the eve of the scheme's debut. As most Londoners are by now keenly aware, Livingstone does not drive. So he did not seem too distraught when he conceded that the first days of the congestion charge "will clearly be bloody." If it works...