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...interesting question," the President said, having been asked on Meet the Press whether Iraq was a war of choice or of necessity. "Please elaborate on that a little bit. A war of choice or necessity?" It was as if George W. Bush had never considered this most basic of questions. He seemed befuddled, then slowly found his legs. "I mean, it's a war of necessity. In my judgment, we had no choice when we look at the intelligence I looked at that says the man was a threat...
These are certainly valid points. But a University that purports to the best in the world should not skimp on such a basic and essential product. Cottonnelle is also not as wasteful as it may seem—its added thickness means it takes fewer sheets to do the job, which easily makes up for the fact that it offers only 400 sheets per roll. And the University wouldn’t necessarily have to go 100 percent Cottonelle—Cabot House offers a good middle ground for the cost and conservation conscious: its superintendent offers both types...
...well spent; Breen calls the decision a "no-brainer." Tyco Healthcare's management was already strong, Breen says, and its products (more than 40 are in the pipeline for release in the next two years) are well positioned for an aging U.S. population. All the unit needed was some basic management. It's a far cry from how Kozlowski ran things. Meelia says that before Breen's arrival he had little contact with Tyco's corporate management, which didn't review the strategic plans Meelia submitted and for some reason lumped health care with plastics and adhesives into one division...
Harriet Jacobs: A Life (Basic Civitas Books; 394 pages), by Jean Fagan Yellin, is the first biography of Jacobs, and it's a harrowing case study of the cruel conundrums women faced under slavery. When Jacobs was an adolescent, her master made sexual advances toward her. She tried to discourage him by initiating an affair with a neighbor. "At fifteen," Yellin writes, "she did not have the option of choosing virginity." But the harassment persisted, and in 1835 Jacobs took more drastic action: she ran to her grandmother's house and hid in a cubbyhole. Her sanctuary...
...Botox injections. But Gillespie had to concede that Kerry had an "honorable" war record, and the Drudge insinuation of narcissism was trumped by the grizzled Vietnam veterans who surrounded Kerry in victory. I suspect, or maybe I just hope, that there may be too much at stake this year--basic questions of war and solvency--for the ancient epithets to have much sting...