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...show, assembled by that preeminent scholar of Broadway music, Robert Kimball, had some nice arcana, like Mercer's rejected lyric for a Harold Arlen tune that, thanks to Ira Gershwin, became "The Man That Got Away." And at the end, one of Mercer's most important interpreters came on stage: Margaret Whiting, still a pistol at 81. The night I attended, she went dry on some lyrics to "One for My Baby," then won the audience back by muttering, in her best saloon-chanteuse alto, "Of all the songs to blow, it had to be this...
...that their algorithm will detect something untoward and worth investigating. But even if your call to Aunt Sally isn't being listened to by some NSA officer, the program sounds creepy enough that no shortage of senators jumped all over it. The Republican Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, said he'd subpoena the heads of the three telecommunications companies involved - AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth - before hearings to find out what they knew. Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein, who had kind words about former NSA head Gen. Michael Hayden when he was nominated...
...million , while Bush said it was 6 million). However, the White House did agree with one of Snowe's suggestions, announcing the next day a proposal to increase fuel economy standards for cars, as part of its strategy to reduce gas prices. On the other hand, when Republican Arlen Specter brought up his concerns about the NSA domestic wiretapping program that allows searches without warrants, the President "didn't choose to engage" on the issue, according to the senator. The next day Specter held a press conference in which he said he might seek to withhold funds from...
...immigration reform dead? Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter has vowed to turn his panel's attention to reviving the deal as soon as Senators return from their two-week Easter break and to move a bill back to the full Senate within a week. But majority leader Bill Frist has not committed to taking the bill back to the floor...
...This afternoon, he also gave his response to a call by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) on "Fox News Sunday" for "the president and the vice president to tell the American people exactly what happening." "It's not a question of whether or not we would like to talk more about it," McClellan replied. "We don't want to do anything that could jeopardize this ongoing investigation and legal proceeding. We want there to be due process. We want there to be a fair hearing. And that's why we made it policy not to comment...