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...torture policy, The Dark Side, which I read simultaneously with American Wife. It is no small astonishment that Sittenfeld's portrait of the President and his circle made Mayer's horror story more plausible for me: suddenly you understand how George W. Bush could abdicate his authority and allow Dick Cheney and his alarming chief of staff, David Addington, to abandon the Geneva Conventions and engage in the most gruesome forms of torture. You can easily see Charlie Blackwell - whose (inaccurate) notion of the efficacy of torture would have been shaped by Hollywood - passing off the tough and the ugly...
Officials in both Hancock and Harrison counties said they hope to allow residents to return to their homes soon but the situation remains too unstable at the moment to have an idea when that might be possible. "This event is ongoing, and we're not out of the woods yet," Pollard stressed. "We're not going to send assessment teams out on a large scale until it's fully safe...
That's an observation, not a criticism. Rather than allow this election to be framed as a test of his own readiness or the state of American race relations, Obama wants it to be about George W. Bush, a sour economy, war fatigue and whether a majority of this country is sick enough of the way things are going to take it out on John S. McCain...
...Todd Stitzer, the veteran Cadbury executive who is only the second person outside the Cadbury family to run the shop. Stitzer is predicting that yet another restructuring--the company plans to close 15% of its factories and ax 15% of its workers in the next four years--will allow Cadbury's chocolate, candy and chewing-gum business to deliver annual sales increases of 4% to 6% and profit margins in the midteens by 2011 from its current level of around...
...Bush Administration announced a new regulation that would allow doctors to deny medical services on the basis of their religious or moral beliefs, overriding current state laws that require health-care workers to aid patients or refer them elsewhere. Opponents say the rule, which applies to 584,000 hospitals and clinics, could block patient access to everything from birth control to abortions to end-of-life care. The rule could go into effect after a 30-day comment period...