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...Shays pointed out that Republicans adopted the rule in 1993 when they were trying to seize control of the House from Democrats by spotlighting the ethical and legal troubles of the opposition's leaders. "Now we're starting to act like the very people we defeated," Shays told TIME afterward. Even some of DeLay's ideological soulmates were outraged. Arizona Representative J.D. Hayworth wouldn't comment to TIME on what he said in the caucus. But other Congressmen who were there say the conservative gave an impassioned speech, warning his colleagues that the backlash from the rule change could "jeopardize...
...reach out to one another. Last week, when both President Bushes and President Carter joined Bill Clinton for the opening of his new Presidential Center in Little Rock, Ark. (Gerald Ford, 91, did not feel up to the trip), they got drenched in the rain like everyone else. But afterward they and their wives got to dry out in the Clintons' private apartment at the top of the building. They drank hot tea and talked about how to resuscitate their clothes, before going downstairs for a tour from a very proud Clinton...
...Afghan and American interrogators are interested in other voices he heard during his time fighting U.S. forces, especially those voices that came from Pakistan. Mujahed was captured four months ago in the mountains of Afghanistan's Uruzgan province after an epic chase involving eight helicopters and dozens of troops. Afterward, Afghan intelligence found stored in his satellite telephone the numbers of several top Taliban military commanders, all hiding in Pakistan. His warden says Mujahed was caught with 60 remote-controlled bombs that he allegedly confessed to picking up in Pakistan after attending a Taliban war council in the southern city...
...Afterward, off camera, Sites informed the Marine he had killed a wounded prisoner. The Marine replied, according to Sites: "I didn't know, sir. I didn't know." Sites reported that three other injured Iraqis may also have been shot in the mosque that day. The corpses of four Iraqis have been shipped to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware for autopsies, and the Marine shooter in the video, who has not been identified, has been removed from the battlefield. Marines in Fallujah have launched an investigation into the shooting...
...Sibneft was scheduled to merge with Yukos until Khodorkovsky's troubles erupted in October 2003. Abramovich and Yukos jostled for power for weeks afterward, until the merger finally unraveled earlier this year, prompting speculation that Sibneft may be looking for a Western buyer. It's also possible that a Western oil firm might bid for Yugansk, although that would be asking for trouble. "Whoever buys it will be buying an enormous set of lawsuits," says Stuart E. Eizenstat, a former U.S. Undersecretary of State who is advising Group Menatep, an investment fund created by Khodorkovsky and his allies that owns...