Trailing by 8 points late in the fourth quarter, Tom Brady rallied New England to a tying touchdown and put Stephen Gostkowski in position to kick the winning field goal with 1 minute 10 seconds left.
Vermont, where nearly three quarters of residents oppose the Iraq war, has the nation's highest per capita death rate in the conflict. It's a statistic seemingly at odds with the state's reputation as a liberal utopia, a low-stress playground for snowboarders and the escape-from-New York crowd. But with the tally of dead American servicemen and women now past 3,000, the situation in Iraq grim, and President Bush calling for more troops, many Vermonters are asking whether they've already sacrificed too much for a cause whose lofty aims they think may be unreachable.
No one could envy President Bush in trying to sell his new plan for Iraq. He has lost the confidence of the nation, the Congress, and an increasing number of his own Republican Party members, for the inept way we allowed the military triumph in Iraq to disintegrate into an ignominious failure. For the president to admit having made errors in Iraq is fine, but it is also galling because many of the mistakes made there were foreseen and warned of; the warnings fell on utterly deaf ears.
Botulinum is right up there next to anthrax and smallpox on the Department of Homeland Security's short list of potential agents of bioterrorism. But modern medicine has harnessed the neurotoxin's destructive power, turning it into a veritable magic microbullet for both rare neuromuscular diseases and the most common of human afflictions, the furrowed brow. Innovation alone, however, does not explain the rapid conversion of the poison from demon to saint. This could not have happened without the Food and Drug Administration, which enabled the drug's ever expanded use and meteoric public acceptance.
AP - Saddam Hussein's half brother and the former head of Iraq's Revolutionary Court were both hanged before dawn Monday, Prosecutor Munqith al-Faroon said, two weeks and two days after the former Iraqi dictator was executed in a chaotic scene that has drawn worldwide criticism.
AP - Digging in for confrontation, President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney say they will not budge from sending more U.S. troops to Iraq no matter how much Congress opposes it.
AP - The ice storms that have been blamed for at least 21 deaths continued to lash much of the nation Sunday, as crews tried to restore power to hundreds of thousands and slick roads spawned accidents.
The UK's biggest arms supplier secretly paid a $12m commission into a Swiss account in a deal which led to Tanzania, one of the world's poorest countries, buying a controversial military radar system.
Congress cannot reverse last week's decision to send 21,000 more troops to Iraq, President Bush said in an interview intended to rally popular support for his plan.
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