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When Marissa and I said goodbye to the guys late that night, we invited them to come visit us in Canada. They laughed and told us they’d think about it, but the truth was obvious: Welsh-born and Welsh-bred, their homeland holds all the adventure they need...
...summer. Last week Gloria Macapagal Arroyo jumped the gun on the speech scheduled for July 25 because, as she told her countrymen in a hurried radio address, the nation's state was so parlous it needed fixes that couldn't wait. "Let's confront the biggest, most painful political truth ... our political system has degenerated," the President said. Arroyo ordered her Cabinet to step down and announced a crusade to reform the government, reducing red tape and cleaning up the election process. Arroyo also said she couldn't resign in the wake of allegations that she fixed last year...
...most enduring lesson terrorism experts have learned is that a movement as far-flung as bin Ladenism can't easily be contained. "It's been a constant truth in this discipline that by the time you've figured out what Islamists are up to, they've already moved on to something else," the French official says. At another point, he says, "We work tirelessly. We use every means at our disposal to discover and avert attacks. And we work as much as possible with our partners." Sometimes, he adds, the work pays off and attacks are averted; he mentions...
...TIME's interview with CIA Director Porter Goss [June 27], you asked him, "Could the U.S. go to war again based on false intelligence?" Goss disingenuously replied that he "would not agree to surmise" that we did so. Why can't Administration officials simply speak the truth about our invasion of Iraq? The indisputable fact is that President Bush justified the attack on Iraq based on intelligence that proved to be wrong...
...truth that many Serbs continue to avoid is that Mladic, Radovan Karadzic and other Bosnian Serb warlords could have never have accomplished their ethnic cleansing campaigns, the brutal siege of Sarajevo, and the Srebrenica massacre, without troops and equipment from Serbia. Thousands of Serbian police and military officers, thinly disguised as "volunteers", were put on Mladic's disposal by former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, and they were more than willing executioners...