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...Numbers 500,000 Number of protest marchers in New York City on the eve of the U.S. Republican National Convention, according to protest organizers...
...wager" on elections online through the Iowa Electronic Markets, a small-scale futures exchange that lets people buy contracts on candidates based on their estimated chance of victory. (At press time, George W. Bush led John Kerry 54% to 46%.) Since its 1988 launch, the I.E.M. has outpredicted election-eve polls by an average of 0.5 percentage points...
...even some fans of the Agency have credited Roberts with ensuring that meaningful intelligence reform - going well beyond President Bush's convention-eve executive orders - will at least be seriously debated. And some were willing to ask, rhetorically anyway, whether it may indeed be time to put a new face on U.S. intelligence. "I think many of Roberts' proposals make some sense," said Richard Kerr, a respected former career CIA official who ultimately served as acting director. Kerr concurred with many of Roberts' ideas for strengthening the powers of the head of the U.S. intelligence community, adding that...
...AXIS OF EVE Demanding an end to "political cover-up," about 100 women draped in American flags and wearing anti-Republican "protest panties" will perform a "mass flash" on Sept...
...born and bred in France, but he was mercurial, synchronized to the changing tides of history. He was in China on the eve of revolution and with Mahatma Gandhi 15 minutes before his death. But Cartier-Bresson was not a reporter. The world in process was his raw material. He was difficult to define, and he could not be contained, as the Germans found out when he escaped from a prison camp during World War II and joined the Resistance...