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...Arabs a formidable military machine. His rule was the product of a nationalist ideology that sought to liberate the Arab world by brutally controlling its people: Iraq's ruling Ba'ath party was founded in 1947 to promote an Arab renaissance throughout the Middle East. Saddam turned Iraq's branch of that party into a front organization serving his Tikrit family mafia and his own Stalinist cult of personality. And that inevitably produced the bungling that led Iraq into the disastrous wars with Iran, Kuwait and the United States. Nasser lost a chunk of Egypt; Saddam lost all of Iraq...
...vaccination program have been criticized for questioning the president’s judgment. The authors of these pieces have found fault with scientific experts who presume to be able to evaluate the probability of a smallpox bioterrorism event. Some have even implied that to question decisions by the executive branch and federal agencies in the “war on terrorism” borders on being unpatriotic. Little legitimacy has been given to the concerns about the safety of the vaccine or whether the mass immunization strategy is really the most effective approach in a post event environment...
...Kennedy observed Martin Luther King Jr.'s soul-stirring address to the huge throng at the Lincoln Memorial with a professional's eye. "He's damn good," he remarked to aides as they watched King on a TV set at the White House. According to King's biographer, Taylor Branch, Kennedy was especially impressed with King's departure from his prepared text to sound the electrifying refrain that became the oratorical high point of blacks' freedom struggle: "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed ... I have...
...oozing cable and smoke. The dead would number 168, including 19 children. (At least six people who survived or lost loved ones have since killed themselves.) When McVeigh was executed in 2001, he remained convinced that he had punished the U.S. government for its 1993 siege of the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas...
...humility and gratitude that it’s impossible to ignore her,” says Daniel McGlinchey, a spokesperson for Rep. Barney Frank ’61, D-Mass. “She worked with both the House and the Senate, both democrats and republicans, both the legislative branch and the executive branch, with such grace that they adore...