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...challenge is much larger than anticipated and that one nation cannot tackle it alone. And the greater the participation in the alliance, the more manageable it gets ... The member states here are all concerned about stability in Iraq, and they see that it's in everyone's interest to pull together and ensure that Iraq doesn't fall into chaos. So I think despite the differences before the war, we can get an agreement on a new resolution...
...Clark (who has a book coming out this month) may yet pull what one Democratic strategist calls "a reverse Arnold": convincing everyone he's running, only to say he's not at the 11th hour. If so, he will disappoint a lot of Democrats, who think his four-star-general power is just what the party needs to bolster its credibility on national security. In any event, the whole will-he-or-won't-he exercise probably hasn't been in vain; if Clark doesn't run, he is certain to be short-listed as a vice-presidential candidate. Clark...
Throughout the season the Crimson hopes to keep a very tight pack in the top five to pull each other along and break up other teams’ finishers...
...didn’t pull ourselves back in [to the game] after that,” sophomore midfielder Allison Kaveney said...
...Lacey's hit idea was imported from the U.S., where he felt the pull of pugilism first-hand. He is a wiry 50-year-old with perfectly coiffed hair, but look closely and you'll see a fine white line snaking above each eye - scars from the gym. He began to learn to box in 1998, when he was "looking down at the abyss of middle age and not fancying the drop." He heard about white-collar fights at New York's Gleason's Gym - once home of Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson - and flew over to box a dentist...