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...promises of positions of authority in the new government," says a member of the staff in the mukhabarat director's office. More telling was the number of officials who did not report the calls. "We know the Americans called virtually all the senior officers and a lot of the lesser ranks right down to lieutenants, but most of them did not come and tell us," says Mohammed...
...government-approved labels on our food can lead us astray. Serving sizes bear no relationship to the helpings we usually eat. Low-fat products are not necessarily low in calories. And now the Food and Drug Administration says we should be on the lookout for trans fat--a lesser-known type of fat that is every bit as bad for the heart as saturated fat--though we won't learn which products are the worst offenders until 2006. Meanwhile, the food pyramid, which serves as the basis for all meals prepared in the federal school-lunch program, is about...
...More bad news: Salmon (both farmed and, to a lesser extent, caught wild) can contain worrisome levels of PCBs...
...silent, even as Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin weathered a summer of union discontent over pension and unemployment reforms. Only in Germany is the opposition enjoying any success, but even there the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian ally, the Christian Social Union (CSU), are seen as the lesser of evils. Why can't opposition parties get any traction? Call it the revenge of the Third Way. Back in the late 1990s, leaders like Blair and German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder sold a pragmatic blend of fiscal realism and social justice, dubbed the Third Way. Outdated ideological divisions...
...Labour’s Lost set in Meiji restoration Japan and staged in the Quincy Grille—which he successfully petitioned to count for his joint VES-Literature degree—he aspires to a Polanski-cum-Kurosawa career trajectory. His weblog, which features translations of lesser-known Proust and original analysis of the Harvard Film Archive’s latest showings of post-war Icelandic cinema, is updated with alarming frequency. Friends enjoy the sly humour that lurks behind his blue-tinted glasses, which are worn even when lounging in the Loeb Drama Center’s greenroom...