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...regret going on The Daily Show in the first place? -John Puterbaugh, Dekalb, Ill. No one wants to suffer a beat-down. No one wants to be humiliated or embarrassed. I was shocked at [host Jon Stewart's] behavior. I wish he knew about my background, and I wish he knew about a lot of things that I had done, because I think he would've thanked me instead of attacked...
Whitehouse seemed more inclined to use Soufan as a stick to beat President Bush. Reminding Soufan of Bush's claim that Abu Zubaydah had given up the names of Mohammed and Padilla under "enhanced interrogation," the Senator asked if the claim were accurate. Soufan, ducking the unsubtle invitation to call Bush a liar, suggested that the former President was misinformed. "I think the President - my own personal opinion here, based on my recollection - he was told probably half-truth," Soufan said...
...well-prepared for a long, costly war. Iran learned how to fight an asymmetrical guerilla war in the 1982-2000 conflict in Lebanon, learning that lightly armed, small, mobile units can beat a larger enemy. Secondly, Iran knows it needs to eliminate any potential fifth column. Saddam's failure to destroy the Iraqi opposition, in particular the Kurdish groups in the north, called into doubt the Iraqi regime's legitimacy. It facilitated the notion that the Iraqi people had asked for a foreign invasion to deliver them from Saddam. Iran's crackdown on student dissidents, foreign journalists and dissident political...
...After winning the Outdoor title last year, Fronk followed up with an encore by winning the javelin event once again with a toss of 43.31 meters.The Crimson continued its success the following day with four more great individual performances.In the highly competitive 5,000 meter run, sophomore Claire Richardson beat out three other Princeton competitors with a time of 16:43.10 to claim her first Heps title. In doing so, she also became the first Harvard runner to win the event since Suzanne Jones did it back in 1990.“Going in, my expectations were just...
...remarkable bit of salesmanship, Geithner has managed to package those findings as positive. Most of the banks can meet or beat the newly imposed government capital requirements on their own, either by selling off parts of their business, converting loans into stock or participating in the fledgling government-led effort to get toxic assets off their balance sheets. And those that are short on cash won't need more in total than the $110 billion to $135 billion the Treasury still has from the original $700 billion in TARP funds that Congress gave the Bush Administration for bank rescues last...