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...hand during negotiations with the United Nations. With Election Day only a month away, most Democratic senators were not willing to vote no and risk being called unpatriotic by Republican challengers. Despite having serious reservations about Bush's rush to war, every Democrat facing a reelection fight voted yes - except for Wellstone. He voted against war with Iraq in 1991, he hadn't changed his views, and he wasn't going to apologize for them, despite the fact he was already running behind in the polls back home. And yet, a funny thing happened. In the week after the vote...
...opposite side of the ball, Harvard’s defense will have a difficult time combating Princeton’s balanced offense. The Tigers have at least one player in the top fifteen of every major statistical category except total offense...
...attack is, however, a major embarrassment for Putin, because it undermines his claim - officially announced last April - that the war in Chechnya is over. By restricting media coverage, Kremlin claims of success in the breakaway republic have gone largely unchallenged at home, except by occasional dramatic events such as the killing of 119 Russian personnel when a military helicopter was shot down in August. But violence in Chechnya has been ongoing, with large numbers continuing to die on both sides. And the fact that a heavily armed group of this size was able to travel undetected from the Caucasus...
Dado is Korean for “way of tea” and the shop offers patrons plenty of ways to steep themselves in tea-knowledge. Except for water, tea rivals milk as the world’s most ancient beverage. Legend has it that Emperor Shen Nung (2727 BC) discovered tea when a fortuitous leaf fell into water that his servants were boiling for drinking. All of the different varieties of loose-leaf tea—green, oodong, black, pü ‘erh—come from a single plant, Camellia sinesnis. Each...
...between November 1985 and April 1996, joining the Oregon National Guard in 1995. He trained as a machinist and combat engineer, according to military sources, and received a badge for his excellence in marksmanship. He never received formal sniper training. His police record is clean, the Associated Press reports, except for a few minor traffic violations in Washington...