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...three years before holding a new election. The plan, the sources say, isn't fully formed: apparently the group has yet to find a political figure to lead the charge. Possible candidates such as former President Fidel V. Ramos and longtime Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile scoff at the coup rumors. "Who is going to run the country?" asks Enrile. But other politicians are more concerned. House Speaker Jose de Venecia has called for emergency "unity talks" among politicians and civic organizations to simmer things down...
...they were conjoined at the head if the video didn’t show otherwise. Meanwhile, Kele Okereke, the band’s dreadlocked singer/guitarist, has the kind of smoldering vocal delivery that makes Julian Casablancas sound comatose; his new wave axe chops aren’t anything to scoff at either...
...really knows; current estimates are that ten billion barrels of oil may be extractable. Thus, in a decade or two, drilling thirty coastal locations in ANWR could theoretically provide the U.S. with four percent of its current oil needs, at its peak capacity. Four percent is nothing to scoff at, but minimal energy conservation or fuel efficiency programs could accomplish similar goals, especially over decades...
...meeting with labor leaders, Kerry questioned whether Democrats had a coherent message opposing Bush's Social Security plan, annoying Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, who told Kerry not to lecture him on strategy, considering his failures in the presidential campaign. And some Democrats on Capitol Hill privately scoff at the idea that Kerry--never particularly popular in the Senate--can expect a leadership role just because he won 59 million votes last year. "In terms of having a louder voice in the Senate," says a Senate Democratic staff member, "I seriously doubt that...
Puffed up with grand notions of their country's historical greatness, the mullahs have convinced themselves that their Middle Eastern importance and cunning diplomacy give Iran a tactical edge in the nuclear showdown. They scoff at U.S. arguments that Iran's huge oil and gas reserves make nuclear power needless and point out that before the 1979 Islamic revolution, Washington supported the Shah's plan to build nuclear-power plants. In spite of bitter differences with the mullahs over other issues, like freedom and human rights, moderate leaders, including Khatami, have embraced Iran's nuclear aspirations. The regime...