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...Politicians have been loath to do anything but praise a person in uniform - especially a senior commander such as Abizaid, who oversees troops in Iraq. But in a noticeable break with that tradition, Democratic Senator Mark Dayton, sounding almost like a jilted lover, openly questioned if Abizaid had been straightforward with the committee: "I always thought I could believe and trust you." Dayton then quoted at length from recent books on the Iraq War in which Abizaid in private reportedly contradicted his public upbeat support for the Administration policy in Iraq. Abizaid said he stood by his previous statements...
...would be great if the timing issue were as straightforward as the treatment. Treatment of stress fractures is pretty easy. Immobilization or rest-basically avoiding the stress that caused the fracture- usually gets them to heal within six weeks. In a child it might be faster, in an older person probably a bit longer...
...ROCKS A little more than most crooners and croons a little more than most rockers, so Merritt never stood much of a chance in the straightforward Best Country Album category. Like all genre crossers, she uses whatever works--an R&B horn section, the crisp guitar of Heartbreaker Mike Campbell--to create an effortlessly seductive record that swings from the cool influence of Dusty Springfield to the complicated warmth of Nanci Griffith...
...PICK ME!!!William M. Polk, former headmaster of the Groton School, a boarding school in Massachusetts that traditionally sends a significant percent of students to Ivy League schools, saw the rise of the admissions industry first hand. Polk believes the high turnover rate among college admissions officers obscured previously straightforward admissions criteria.“There were people reviewing applications who didn’t really know the schools they were dealing with. They didn’t really know how to read the transcripts,” says Polk. This induced confusion about colleges’ expectations and, when...
...have to say there was a plan. I actually find the argument of the existence of a God who did the planning more compelling than the bubbling of all these multiverses. So Occam's razor--Occam says you should choose the explanation that is most simple and straightforward--leads me more to believe in God than in the multiverse, which seems quite a stretch of the imagination...