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...begin, for irony's sake, in January 2001, when thousands of draft notices arrived in the mail at the homes of Israeli army reservists in standard-issue brown envelopes bearing the legend "Chapter 8" - Israel's code for a call-up for war. Those notices were fake, part of a sneaky effort to reduce Sharon's 20-point lead over Ehud Barak two weeks before a crucial election by suggesting that if Sharon were elected, the draft notices would be real. Sharon won, and sure enough, a little over a year later the real draft notices arrived, calling up some...
Lichten said the report is in draft form as HNTB works to finish the final text...
Harvard’s amazing postseason run has repercussions far beyond this season. Since 1994 critics have called the Crimson underachievers, a team long on talent but always short on results. With a whopping eight NHL draft picks on this year’s roster—more than any ECAC school, more even than Maine this year—it looked like yet another unfulfilled season...
NIGERIA Code of Conduct African leaders sought to bolster international investment on the continent by implementing a peer-review system to monitor economic reform and good governance. Meeting in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, representatives of 19 countries agreed on eight draft codes of conduct to be monitored by an independent African body. The aim is to ensure Africa keeps its side of the deal to attract some $64 billion a year under a proposed "Marshall Plan" for Africa, the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD...
...first salvo in this war for hearts and minds will come before Blair's plane takes off for Texas, when the British government will issue a detailed dossier about Saddam's secret weapons programs. A draft is now circulating in Whitehall. There is internal debate about how much secret intelligence to divulge, but the document will emphasize how persistently Saddam has tried to obtain weapons of mass destruction (wmds), nuclear bombs in particular. "It's very good," says one official who has seen...