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...then there were three. Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, the latest addition to the Democrats' ever-widening pool of presidential candidates, declared his intention to campaign for his party's nomination this week, ending months of speculation and adding his particular brand of Southern progressivism to the mix. He officially joins Massachusetts Senator John Kerry and Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, both of whom declared their candidacies before the holidays. Senate minority leader Tom Daschle, Sen. Bob Graham of Florida and House minority leader Richard Gephardt are expected to announce in the next several weeks whether they will...
Saudi Arabia has oil. So does Iraq. Iraq's terrorism connections are questionable. Saudi Arabia, on the other hand, is a prime pool for al-Qaeda funding and recruitment. Iraq has the armed strength to affect the region, including the potential for weapons of mass destruction. The Saudi military is negligible. The U.S. wants oil, and it is still livid about Sept. 11. Powerful allies of convenience are useful. Let's hook up with Saddam Hussein, and together we can achieve a regime change in terrorist-coddling Saudi Arabia. TOM LANE Chicago...
...Hampton, the community pool was the gathering place for students in summer, and when Rowley was in junior high, she wanted to learn the jackknife dive. "But of course there was no one to teach her," recalls her friend Vicki Kennedy. "The rest of us, we didn't want to try because ... there were boys and everything." But Rowley "worked and worked and worked all summer, and she belly-flopped a lot," Kennedy says. "By the end of the summer, she could do a real pretty dive where the rest of us had been too embarrassed...
...students, who were selected from a pool of 77 applicants, will each receive $16,000 to travel next year to a country of their choice...
However, while Harvard accepted about the same number of students early this year as last, some accepted students will not attend because of their Early Decision commitments elsewhere. This could decrease Harvard’s enrollment yield from its early pool compared to last year?...