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Pundits are less sanguine that John McCain can topple George W. Bush, but many note that McCain's fund raising, while well behind Bush's clip, has increased substantially.
On September 10, Hadley gathered the deputies to finalize their threephase, multiyear plan to pressure and perhaps ultimately topple theTaliban leadership.
If we take a three-inch cannonball on a very hot day, compute its diameter on a very cold day (assuming a drop of 60° C.), and compare this to the contraction of brass for the same drop in temperature, while it is true that the cannonballs will have shrunken twice as much as the brass monkey , the difference for ten balls would be less than a sixteenth of an inch; the pile would not topple even if their diameters were twice as large.
In Johannesburg yesterday, rebel leaders who tried to topple the Congolese government of Laurent Kabila, drawing five countries into a war in the process, signed a cease-fire.
In China Wednesday, People's Daily , the official government newspaper, said that Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui was "overrating his strength, like an ant trying to topple a tree."