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...Administration's effort to paint Iran as a source of trouble in Iraq also appears to have suffered an internal setback with the postponement of a scheduled roll-out of evidence - reportedly because top Administration officials judged that evidence to be insufficiently solid. The fact that qualms about the case against Iraq in Iran were reportedly expressed by Secretary Rice, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley and Defense Secretary Robert Gates suggests there may be some division in the Administration over just how far to press the offensive against Iran. (As well there ought to be, since U.S. credibility...
...Undergraduate Council (UC) operation aimed at providing students with cheaper textbooks suffered a setback when Harvard Coop officials asked UC representatives to leave the floor where they were collecting information on textbooks. Tuesday’s incident, however, did not prevent the student-run Web site crimsonreading.org from going live this week. The site, known as Crimson Reading, allows prospective buyers to compare textbook prices online. ISBN numbers are the ten-digit numbers attached to each book to serve as unique identifiers. “We need that database of ISBN numbers to keep the Web site running...
...shattered his right hind leg at the start of the Preakness, inspiring a nationwide vigil. He was saved, but never out of danger: one day ready to sprint out of that Pennsylvania veterinary hospital that suddenly became a center of the sports world, the next day yet another setback. The emotional wave has finally crashed, as Barbaro was euthanized on Monday in Kennett Square, Pa., three months short of his fourth birthday, due to complications from his Preakness injuries...
...whole Lebanon war was a setback. But there are many therapy riding programs in Israel, and what we are going to do is bring them financing if they open their programs to children of other nations--to take a small step toward peace...
...provide streamlined control to 16 U.S. intelligence agencies after the failures that led to 9/11 and the mistaken assessments of Saddam Hussein's weaponry. Negroponte, 67, was the America's first DNI and his departure after little more than 20 months on the job is being viewed as a setback for America's beleaguered spy community and the continuity of leadership at the top that many believe it needs...