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...grounds. The Beijing organizers may still be faced with athletes who want to raise issues. Joey Cheek, a gold medalist in speed skating in 2006 who is now active in the campaign to end the bloodshed in Darfur, says Olympians can raise political issues during the Games and still act within the rules. Cheek co-founded Team Darfur, a group of athletes that work to raise awareness about the war-torn region of Sudan. The NGO has 46 members who will be completing in Beijing, and some who may call for China to lobby its ally Sudan to bring peace...
...tell you what autism is. In 99% of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act...
...Rumsfeld--reached the Supreme Court, which gave Hamdan and his lawyers a sweeping victory. A majority of Justices found that the President's military tribunals were unlawful. In response, the Administration redoubled its efforts, pressing Congress to authorize the military tribunals, which it did by passing the Military Commissions Act during the waning days of the Republican Congress in the fall of 2006. Hamdan was re-charged under the Military Commissions Act and moved into a new maximum-security facility, permitted only an hour or so of indirect contact with other detainees during his daily recreation period...
...part because there was a risk that voters might see the trip not as an audition but as a bold act of presumption, Obama spent much of the Iraq and Afghanistan portions of the trip joined at the hip by Democratic Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, a West Pointer, and Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, a Vietnam vet and onetime ally of McCain's. The sidemen, plus the images of combat-hardened troops greeting him, may have helped the campaign present Obama as a plausible Commander in Chief...
...experts agree. "The Libyans are stupid enough to act irrationally," says Conrad Gerber, president of Petro-Logistics, a Geneva oil consultancy firm. "They produce 1.7 million barrels a day, yielding billions of dollars, so the small Swiss market is a drop in a bucket for them...