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President Bush is "sick and tired of games and deceptions" where Iraq is concerned, but North Korea appears to be quite a different matter. Tuesday, even as the President threatened a war to disarm Iraq, he offered an olive branch to its fellow "Axis of Evil" state North Korea - unlike Iraq, a proven and proud offender in both the nuclear and the proliferation field. The president affirmed that the U.S. was offering North Korea food and energy aid if it agrees to stop its nuclear program, an approach he labeled a "bold initiative." But to Korea watchers, the offer...
...protective white suits and masks, and seeing the long hours they spent in the top-floor apartment above a local pharmacy, neighbors in North London's multiracial Wood Green section knew that something big was up. Last Tuesday morning they learned just how big. The Metropolitan Police Anti-Terrorist Branch - as part of a joint intelligence operation with the Special Branch and MI5, Britain's domestic security service - raided premises in North and East London early on Jan. 5 and took six men, all believed to be North Africans, into custody under the Terrorism Act of 2000. (A woman arrested...
Last month, an administrator from UNC-Chapel Hill wrote to the university’s branch of the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship that the organization’s charter violates the university’s nondiscrimination policy...
...Power Hoarder If you're in politics and you believe in leadership and action, the Executive Branch of government is the place to be. Cheney was happy and effective in his 10 years as a Congressman, and he rose to be the second-ranking Republican in the House, with a real chance of one day becoming Speaker. But when President Bush in 1989 asked him to be Secretary of Defense instead, he leaped at the offer. Even when he was in the House, Cheney displayed a strong bent - atypical in that chamber - for Executive privilege. In the wake of Vietnam...
...know what we're doing even if you don't." But Cheney is unapologetic in his view. In an appearance last February on the Tonight Show, not the usual forum for constitutional issues, he complained to Jay Leno about "a continual encroachment by Congress in the Executive Branch" and vowed, "The President and I are bound and determined not to allow that to happen on our watch...