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...There is no doubt the U.S. and Britain remain important strategic partners. But the U.K.'s one-sided obsession with the relationship has made it overestimate its influence in some areas and fail to assert itself in others. Since last July, a public inquiry into the Iraq war chaired by former civil servant John Chilcot has been hearing testimony from British politicians, military chiefs and officials involved in the decision to go to war and the planning for its aftermath. Much of the testimony so far has laid bare the way in which Washington called the shots, often ignoring British...
...millennial generation, ages 18 to 29, are so close to their parents that college students typically check in about 10 times a week, and they are all Facebook friends. Kids and parents dress alike, listen to the same music and fight less than previous generations, and millennials assert that older people's moral values are generally superior to their...
Tied at one, Gemmell and Hathway duked it out in the third game, each one trying to assert her superiority over the other. Hathway took the match, 15-13, giving herself some breathing room and putting all the pressure on Gemmell to come from behind...
...financial system] in place," Spitzer was saying. He ordered a Scotch and soda. "Barack is still listening to the same people. None of the questions he asked were the ones he should have been asking." He said he hoped the Administration would use the Massachusetts Senate loss "to assert the progressive agenda that people thought [he] stood for" rather than retreat to the center. Oh, and Obama should be listening more to Paul Volcker. (See the screwups of Campaign...
...congressional testimonies and intelligence agency reports, including the 2004 testimony of former FBI director Robert Mueller and a 29-page report released by the Justice Department that year, provides countless other specific examples of the act’s contributions to national security. While it would be foolish to assert that none of these successes would have been possible without the Patriot Act, lack of absolute necessity does not equate to lack of value...