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...approve construction of new prison units at Guantanamo designed with terrorist detention in mind - a project that could turn Gitmo, until last month a neglected Caribbean naval station, into a key military Alcatraz. "We're going to be in this sort of thing for a long time," said Alaska Senator Ted Stevens. And that includes, it seems, the disagreement over how to label these prisoners as well as house them...
...born, in 1945. I did it for the next three weeks. I thought the joke wore thin. Then I received mail from as far away as Alaska. I didn't realize that I was being scrutinized like that. So I put it back...
...slapping him around on the economic stimulus package. Now he's sent word that he'll be hanging around the home front a lot more next year, trying to slip the good war/bad economy noose that got his father. But the more he talks about things like drilling in Alaska, tax breaks for corporations, the less he looks like the leader of a noble country in a noble fight - and the more he looks like a Republican...
...Baked Alaska...
...they didn't take it, Hollings threatened to push the "compromise" through the Senate anyway, and put House Republicans in the position of killing it. By the time the House passed the bill on Friday with a 410-to-9 vote, Transportation Committee chairman Don Young, an Alaska Republican, was calling it "the best security bill this nation has ever had for the flying public...