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Yang’s wife, Harvard Medical School researcher Christina X. Fu, held a press conference on Capitol Hill yesterday afternoon to protest the verdict with Genser and a number of members of U.S. Congress...
...9/11 commission, not to mention the first anniversary of the aircraft-carrier landing that turned "mission accomplished" into a punch line. But what did the challenger find himself talking about for three days? The question of what, precisely, he tossed over a fence in front of the Capitol during an antiwar protest 33 years ago. The point of contention was whether the much decorated Vietnam veteran who still carries shrapnel in his thigh threw away medals, as he told a local Washington television station in 1971, or ribbons, which is how he subsequently described them to nearly everyone else. Political...
...record is impressive for an officer who spent just 10 months in Vietnam. Each of the medals below came with a matching ribbon. Kerry wore his ribbons when he testified before a Senate committee in 1971; the next day, joining hundreds of other vets, he lobbed them at the Capitol. --By Mitch Frank...
While only a few specially prepared students participated in the State Department and White House meetings, several hundred of the demonstrators ascended Capitol Hill to keep appointments with more than 300 Congressmen and their aides. Despite the fact that many students were encouraged by their visits, a great many of the meetings deteriorated into interviews rather than discussions, with the students finding the political atmosphere for their proposals nearly as chilly as the snowy Washington weather...
...photographs of U.S. troops humiliating Iraqi prisoners inside one of Saddam's most notorious torture chambers were used on Capitol Hill as an opportunity to highlight problems of executive decision making over a number of aspects of the mission in Iraq. And the buck has, not surprisingly, landed at the door of the architects of the mission - Rumsfeld and the civilian leadership at the Pentagon...