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Ridge says he'll have "all the resources I need." White House aides insist he'll be able to shape budgets behind the scenes because he has Bush's ear. "He knows the President well," says one. "He has the most important new portfolio in town. The notion that he wouldn't have power strikes me as quizzical...
...Israeli troops launched deadly raids on Hebron and the Gaza Strip in reprisal for two attacks that killed five Israelis. Sharon infuriated Washington with an accusation that the U.S. was seeking to appease Arab states to gain support for its international coalition. President Bush earlier appeared to endorse the notion of an independent Palestinian state. building international pressure, Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar offered to release British journalist Yvonne Ridley, who was arrested for entering the country illegally. The Taliban also offered the freedom of eight international aid workers, held since the beginning of August on charges of promoting Christianity...
...this glorious likeness of the Statue of Liberty thus as a kind of post-modern icon: a transformation—nay, subversion—of traditional elite definitions of “high art” through the medium of the balloon. Because this form of art rejects the notion of “absolute truth” by implication, passers-by are thus free to imagine and enforce their own particular meaning of the sculpture. Tamiko A. Tsurudome ‘04, for example, speculates that “It kind of looks like the Chiquita Banana Woman?...
...While official figures put the deficit at 2.7% of GDP, some analysts say the real figure is closer to 50% if you factor in Beijing's pension liabilities and more than $250 million in bad loans state-owned banks are thought to be hiding in their books. Meanwhile, the notion that China can be an engine for growth in Asia has pretty much gone out the window. None of the region's ailing economies exports enough to China to make up for a badly deflated U.S. market. "There's no way that China is going to absorb Asia's downside...
...encourage us to spend more time exploring pursuits we love at our leisure. So, when I asked him where he thinks students should spend this unstructured free time, he wrote in an e-mail message, “Did I really need to put more structure on the notion of unstructuredness in order to be helpful...