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DIED. Harold Arlen, 81, popular composer with a distinctively bluesy, jazz-based style who created some of America's most durable and cherished songs, ranging from the bubbling Get Happy, his first hit, in 1929, to the sultry Stormy Weather (1933) and including such perennials as It's Only a Paper Moon, Last Night When We Were Young, Come Rain or Come Shine, The Man That Got Away and, perhaps most memorably, Over the Rainbow, the Academy Award-winning ballad that Judy Garland sang in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz; in New York City. Born Chaim Arluk...
...Judiciary Committee letter, signed by chairman Arlen Specter and members Charles Grassley and Patrick Leahy, mentioned an allegation that Rattigan and Abdel-Hafiz at one point could not be contacted by the FBI and "may have surrendered their FBI cell phones to Saudi nationals." That charge possibly arose from a working trip that the agents' colleagues say the two made to Mecca during the Muslim pilgrimage season. The pair were required to give up their FBI-provided cell phones just as an FBI official in the U.S. was trying to get in touch with them. When the U.S.-based...
...don’t like veto threats, and I don’t like statements about overriding veto threats,” said the Senate’s chief sponsor of the bill, Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Penn., at a news conference. “I think if it really comes down to a showdown, we will have enough in the United States Senate to override a veto...
...Collins, 52, is less lonely at lunch, she's still often looking for more G.O.P. allies when she votes. Today's U.S. Senate contains only four solidly moderate Republicans (Collins, Rhode Island's Lincoln Chafee, Maine's Olympia Snowe and Pennsylvania's Arlen Specter). They increasingly face pressure from fellow Republicans to conform. But in a closely divided Senate, their votes can be determinative. Which is why G.O.P. Senators seeking to end judicial filibusters heavily courted Collins' vote as she remained uncommitted...
...BEAT BACK A CHALLENGE FROM CONSERVATIVES, WHO WERE WARY of his pro-choice views, but now Arlen Specter, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is leading the Senate's scrutiny of President Bush's court nominees. The Pennsylvania Republican, 75, who recently revealed he has Hodgkin's disease, a form of cancer, spoke with TIME's Massimo Calabresi...