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"Help Wanted: Jobless in America
http://money.cnn.com/news/specials/jobless/
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"Surviving the software slump in India"
http://cnn.technology.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&expire=05%2F19%2F2003&urlID=6196737&fb=Y&partnerID=2016
BANGALORE, India (Reuters) --The shining glass facades, swimming pools, gyms
and in-house pizza joints are still there, but the mood is sombre on the
campuses of India's software firms.
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"Do you think the president's tax-cut plan will..."
http://money.cnn.com/POLLSERVER/results/3222.html
Worsen the federal budget deficit? 55%
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"Where are Iraq's weapons of mass destruction?"
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/05/04/national1354EDT0472.DTL
More than six weeks into the Iraq campaign, there has been a string of false
alarms but no discovery of what the Bush administration said was its main
justification for going to war -- chemical, biological and nuclear weapons
programs.
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But after scores of fruitless searches, other administration officials
privately have stopped promising that. Some now say that instead of finding
weapons stockpiles, they might find nothing more than documents and other
evidence that the program once existed and was either destroyed or abandoned.
"Politically, this could be a big problem," said Paul Keer of the Arms
Control Association, a Washington disarmament group. "If it turns out they
... exaggerated, people will say we attacked without justification -- some
are starting to say that now."
Before the war, administration officials did not just say Iraq had weapons
of mass destruction, they also said they knew where some of them were.
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"The X factor: CityLife critic hails the new X-Men movie as a classic. Has
his mutant mind finally snapped?"
http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2003/05/02/film/film1x.txt
The opening scene, for instance, is harrowing. A mutant (whom we later learn
is named Nightcrawler) enters the White House, teleporting his way through
Secret Service agents and into the Oval Office. There, the president cowers
amid 30 or more agents, their guns drawn, waiting for the mutant to break
down the door. Instead, he teleports through the room, viciously beating the
agents into submission, until it's just him and the Big Man, pinned to the
desk. Nightcrawler pulls out a dagger, ready to plunge it, but an agent
recovers enough to wing the assassin, who then disappears. The dagger is
left sticking in the desk; a note attached reads: "Mutant Freedom Now!"
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The assault renews the political and public outcry for a Mutant Registration
Act, a gross erosion of civil rights on par with the Bush administration's
own Patriot Act. Leading the anti-mutant crusade is a wealthy former
military commander, William Stryker, played by Brian Cox (Manhunter, LIE),
who does his best John Ashcroft impression, as a man whose grievances and
psychopathology make him a dangerous administrative figure.
[Edit: Strongest mainstream criticism yet of Shrub?]
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-- Hop-Frog
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