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...savings accounts to Social Security and to reduce the program's cost by changing how initial benefits are calculated could be the foundation for a bipartisan compromise. At the very least, Thompson's policy proposals prove that he's not running just on his acting skills and regional appeal...
...message driving Barack Obama's resurgent campaign these days is "electability plus." He debuted the new appeal at the Iowa Jefferson-Jackson dinner earlier this month, calling for a "party that doesn't just focus on how to win but why we should." Obama referred to what Martin Luther King Jr. called "the fierce urgency of now" and argued that the U.S. faces too many challenges at home and abroad for Democrats to be satisfied with merely taking the White House away from Republicans...
...Speaking in a clear but low voice, the man known to Cambodians by his revolutionary name, Duch, told the courtroom that he was there to seek release from detention ahead of his trial at the tribunal. "The reason I lodged this appeal is that I have been detained without trial for 8 years, 6 months and 10 days already," Duch said, adding that his lawyers would explain his appeal in detail...
...Vann Nath, 62, another S-21 survivor and a well-known Cambodian artist, said he did not attend the hearing as Duch's appeal for release, eloquently argued by his U.N.-sponsored lawyers, made a mockery of the dead and those who narrowly survived. "Where was the U.N.?? he asks. ?Where were the international judges and lawyers when I was in S-21? Where were the human rights groups to help me at that time...
...tribunal's prosecutors responded by arguing that the past actions of the military court have no bearing on the tribunal. Court officials announced Wednesday that a ruling on Duch's appeal would be made at a later date. Meanwhile, the tribunal will be busy in coming months: Lawyers for the four other senior Khmer Rouge leaders now in detention have already submitted similar appeals or are planning to do so, court officials said. The actual trials of the five suspects - Duch; Pol Pot's second-in-command Nuon Chea; Khmer Rouge foreign minister Ieng Sary and his wife Ieng Thirith...