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...name six weeks ago. Then Democrats publicly complained that the Republican Congressman was too partisan for the position, left open by the July resignation of George Tenet. But the Bush Administration was moved to fill the post after recent polls showed Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry narrowing the gap with Bush on the question of whom voters trust more to fight terrorism. That and warnings of a possible new alQaeda attack in the U.S. made it politically dicey to continue with no permanent CIA chief...
...obliviousness in my younger days, but Red Sox fans weren’t always this way. Sure, they were never cute or cuddly, and their collective accent has always registered as foreign and plebeian to the New York ear, but those differences never seemed to constitute an unbridgeable gap...
...seem unlikely that Taylor was going to continue to pursue an Olympic career, especially after she was offered a high-level position with The Gap following her completion of the executive training program. Instead, she decided to move to Chula Vista, Calif., to train at the Olympic Training Center, in the hopes of making the Olympic team...
...stock markets to tumble and prompt economic leaders to warn of the threat to global economic growth. Right on cue, here comes Saudi Arabia to save the day. Last week the kingdom said it was prepared to pump an extra 1.3 million bbl. a day to bridge the supply gap. Normally, even the hint of a production increase from the world's largest oil producer would quell prices. But this time the markets simply shrugged and kept driving up the price. What went wrong...
...hundreds of illegal or prohibited drugs. Since its inception, WADA has been playing catch-up with better-informed and better-equipped athletes, some of whom can pay their way into the world of designer drugs created to evade detection. But the agency has started to close the gap. At the 2002 Winter Games, WADA tested the arriving athletes and surprised them with a more sophisticated test to detect darbopoeitin, a bioengineered hormone that dopes blood by increasing its oxygen content. On the basis of those results, the I.O.C. stripped three athletes of their eight medals...