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Outed CIA agent Valerie Plame says Dick Cheney ruined her career--and she wants him to pay. Plame and her husband Joseph Wilson filed suit last week against the Veep, Karl Rove, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby and other officials. Here's our brief...
...This was 1972, 10 years after the brief, beautiful and tragic life of Eros. In that decade, so much had changed. In what was legally permissable as literature or entertainment, everything had changed. Say no more than that 1972 was the year of Deep Throat...
...truth, the deal as a whole has been overtaken by events. While negotiations were under way, other members of Congress got the White House to agree to brief intelligence committee members on the eavesdropping as well as other anti-terror programs. More importantly, the Supreme Court has weighed in; in the case of Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld, it severely limited the White House's claims of unchecked wartime powers by ruling that the special military tribunals set up for detainees at Guantanamo were unconstitutional...
...lack of political force. We just don’t want it badly enough. College-educated interns rarely take a $7,200 excursion into politics so they can push issues at personal risk; we are here as a substitute for, not a corollary to, gritty grassroots action. For a brief few weeks, we choose to live in this city of majesty and power, and bask in the glory of being a politician. Perhaps by making us work with little political or monetary reward, our bosses conspicuously remind us that we are still public servants.Alexander...
...point where today it is almost unanimously rejected by Basque society. Indeed, despite Basques' desire for self-rule- some still seek independence from Spain- tolerance for political violence has disappeared. It was the desire to heal the traumas of 40 years of low-intensity civil conflict that saw the brief 1998 cease-fire called by ETA greeted with so much hope, but it was soon broken in a new wave of killing that appeared to return the conflict to square...