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...haunt it. Toppling Saddam was to be the singular demonstration of the Bush Doctrine, a quick and decisive strike against tyranny in the heart of the Middle East. It would also send a message to the rest of the world's malefactors, including Iran and North Korea, to think twice about testing the U.S.'s patience with regimes bent on acquiring weapons of mass destruction...
...were living out of my car,” Schofield-Bodt added. During the tour, Jones and Schofield-Bodt placed significant emphasis on the visual—discussing the architectural styles of the yard buildings and playing up photo opportunities. “Our route is almost twice as long” as the official tour, Schofield-Bodt said. “We make a concerted effort to give tourists the best vantage points of the yard,” he added. Despite its “unofficial” status, the tone of the tour is one of unabashed...
BEIJING—Three objects sit on my desk: a Chinese-English dictionary, a lamp, and my computer. For anyone who knows me, this is an anomaly in the extreme. I have an innate incapability to have a clean desk; one memorable winter, I lost my ID twice under the stacks of papers and books that inevitably cover it by mid-semester. Yet it’s almost halfway through the summer semester here at Beijing Language and Culture University, and my tabletop remains freakishly clean. Ostensibly, my monkish existence has a single purpose: learn Mandarin. To this...
...proponents of "net neutrality" have offered few if any specific examples of how broadband companies have abused their power, which helps explain why Congress has now twice rejected attempts to insert language ensuring "net neutrality" into a telecommunications bill it is considering. Despite an intense lobbying effort by bloggers and Google, the House rejected net neutrality 269 to 152 last month. And last week, on a mainly party-line vote in a Senate committee, Republicans blocked an attempt to put it in the Senate version of the bill arguing it constituted excessive and unnecessary regulation of the Internet...
...Tesco travels pretty well. Since the mid-'90s, it has opened more than 800 overseas stores, almost all in Central Europe and Asia, and they now account for more than a fifth of Tesco's total sales. International sales soared 23% in the past fiscal year, more than twice the rate of sales growth in Britain, lifting Tesco's profits 17%, to $4 billion...