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...Reagan rid his White House of the aides whose incompetence and duplicity had produced Iran-contra, and engaged the Soviet foe he had once called an "evil empire." After Bill Clinton got past impeachment, he did what he could by Executive Order and picked his shots with Republicans on Capitol Hill--for instance, demanding more education spending in must-pass bills at the end of the year--boosting his popularity at their expense...
...atmosphere of the post-Sept. 11, 2001 world, where political and moral tensions temper our economic relationship with other nations.Written and directed by Stephen Gaghan, “Syriana” is a gritty film that traces oil corruption from the golden deserts of the Persian Gulf to Capitol Hill. Gaghan, Oscar winner for his screenplay for “Traffic,” formats the film in a similar style, choreographing the careful intersections of multiple plots and characters through common dependencies. The writing and acting manage to successfully illustrate Gaghan’s complicated themes. George Clooney quietly...
...Congress devolved into a screaming match two weeks ago over the status of U.S. troops in Iraq. Lawmakers return to the Capitol on Tuesday, passions tempered but not abated, facing a stack of budget bills and a mandate for "restrained government spending," which Bush touted in his Rose Garden comments on Friday. Both houses are struggling with five-year budget cuts that at the moment tally $50 billion in the House and $35 billion in the Senate. Legislators must also grapple with a host of contentious policy issues before they reach for the eggnog and mistletoe. Against a threatened presidential...
...fights unrelated conspiracy and money-laundering charges in Texas. They have looked into an expensive 2000 junket that Abramoff arranged for DeLay that included a golf outing at Scotland's famed St. Andrews course. But over the past decade, Abramoff and Scanlon spread money and favors across Capitol Hill. The list of lawmakers who weighed in on the partners' side on one project--blocking the planned casino of a tribal client's rival--totaled at least 33, and together the 33 received $830,000 in contributions from Abramoff clients, according to a recent Associated Press study. One of those lawmakers...
...screams a gunner as he spots al-Qaeda fighters dart in front of him. "Just kill people to the north," a sergeant bellows. "Light him up," cries another soldier as a gunman approaches. On Nov. 17, even as Representative John Murtha was stirring debate on Capitol Hill by calling for an immediate redeployment of U.S. troops, the young soldiers of Blue Platoon were amid a citywide battle that revealed just how hard it will be to pull U.S. troops out soon...