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...heard from many former intelligence professionals that administration officials pressured the intelligence agencies to provide the answers it wanted to hear - any inquiry may be expected to face substantial pressure to investigate the role played by the Office of Special Plans established in the Pentagon, allegedly to cherry-pick raw intelligence for evidence backing the case for war. By saying the Bushies saw the same intel as the Clintonites, their defenders are denying claims that the administration sucked its view of Iraq's capabilities out of thin air. But it also implies that the picture of Iraq...
...prosperous Jewish parents, Newton fled from Hitler's Germany to Singapore, where he took up the camera, then to Australia, where he was discovered by Vogue. In London and New York, he developed the louche, provocative style of his breakthrough 1976 book, White Women. By bringing raw sex to glamour and anger to Eros, he displayed one of the defining sensibilities of the '70s and beyond. Feminists--and not just feminists--complained that his images degraded women. He insisted that women were always in the saddle, even when his women, cool and glaring, just might be pictured wearing...
...prosperous Jewish parents, Newton fled from Hitler's Germany to Singapore, where he took up the camera, then to Australia, where he was discovered by Vogue. In London and New York, he developed the louche, provocative style of his breakthrough 1976 book, White Women. By bringing raw sex to glamour and anger to Eros, he displayed one of the defining sensibilities of the '70s and beyond. Feminists?and not just feminists?complained that his images degraded women. He insisted that women were always in the saddle, even when his women, cool and glaring, just might be pictured wearing...
Copper is trading above $1 a pound for the first time in more than six years. Gold broke $420 an ounce. Nickel is at a 14-year high. The Reuters/CRB commodity index rose 9% in 2003, to its highest level since 1996. Do soaring prices for raw materials mean inflation for finished goods, as in the '70s and '80s? "Almost certainly not," Ben Bernanke, a Federal Reserve Board governor, said recently. Sure, China's infrastructure and consumer-spending boom have bolstered demand for commodities. China purchased some 20% of the world's copper last year, compared with...
...women as they climaxed, either with visual stimuli or by self-stimulation, Whipple found that the body's pain-killing center in the midbrain is activated during peak arousal. Signals from this part of the brain instruct the body to release endorphins and corticosteroids, which can temporarily numb the raw nerve endings responsible for everything from menstrual cramps to arthritis and migraine for several minutes. Activating this region also reduces anxiety and has a calming effect...