"after Congress approves two pending bills, the total war costs since Sept. 11, 2001, will reach about $509 billion."

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Mr. Ahmadinejad's habit of answering every question about Iranian policy with a question about American policy was clearly wearing on some of the members, but at the end they acknowledged that he was about as skillful an interlocutor as they had ever encountered.

"He is a master of counterpunch, deception, circumlocution,'' Mr. Scowcroft said, shaking his head. Mr. Blackwill emerged from the conversation wondering how the United States would ever be able to negotiate with this Iranian government.

"If this man represents the prevailing government opinion in Tehran, we are heading for a massive confrontation with Iran," he said.

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"According to the Conyers report, a team of twenty-five GOP volunteers calling themselves the Mighty Texas Strike Force holed up at the Holiday Inn in Columbus a day before the election, around the corner from the headquarters of the Ohio Republican Party -- which paid for their hotel rooms. The men were overheard by a hotel worker ''using pay phones to make intimidating calls to likely voters'' and threatening former convicts with jail time if they tried to ca

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In 2003, photographers caught U.S. President George W. Bush tumbling from [a Segway] at his family's retreat in Kennebunkport, Me. The company blamed the president for not turning the device on.

The company has produced half as many Segways in five years as its factory outside Manchester, N.H., is capable of producing in a month.

"Industry-watchers warn that the iPod could soon be regarded by teenage cynics as their 'parents' player' because a mass-market product rarely equates with edgy fashionability."

"Panellists cite that the batteries are not replaceable, so when they die the entire player must be replaced,' she said. 'We have heard from some conspiracy theorists that the batteries are made to die soon after the warranty ends."

'Some backlash is against the ubiquity of the iPod - everyone has those white headphones on the train.'

Companies do not usually disclose their discoveries of counterfeit versions of their pills .. “You can imagine the impact that it could have,” Ms. Ramirez said. “People would be scared and they won’t take their medicine, and would be ill.”