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...expense of the President isn't helpful to a sitting commander," a Joint Staff officer noted. Nor was it the first time the admiral had sailed close to the wind in commenting on the policies of his commander-in-chief. Last fall, in a comment to the Arab television channel Al-Jazeera, Fallon said a "constant drumbeat of conflict" out of Washington about war with Iran was "not helpful and not useful. I expect that there will be no war, and that is what we ought to be working for." Yet, both Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Admiral Mike Mullen...
...report examines just 167 of 4,700 payments for staff during just one month, October 2004, and mentions no names. It says most MEPs channel the money to a third party, known as a service provider - usually accountants or a political party - who then should pay the staff...
...parents rather than students.Faust addressed an over-capacity crowd of more than 150 junior parents on issues ranging from the College’s new financial aid initiative to academic advising.Though most of the questions centered on the core initiatives of Faust’s nascent presidency, one query channeled frustration expressed by many undergraduates of late.“I have heard from my son and his friends that the food quality is going down,” one parent asked to laughter and scattered applause. “Is there anything you can do with discretionary funds from...
...album of visceral, uncouth guitar-thunder, “Grinderman” eschewed the theatrical balladry of typical Seeds fare, garnering critical praise and exposing conventional hard-rock fans to one of the underground’s elder statesmen. Cave hinted that the Seeds’ next release would channel an adventurous, Grinderman-esque aesthetic, emphasizing guitar noise in defiance of his more piano-oriented past. Fortunately, the gamble pays off in dividends, and “Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!” stands as the mark of an explosive and brilliant new incarnation of the Bad Seeds.The title track...
...While the Democratic channel changed from Happy Days to The Ultimate Fighter, Republicans settled on their standard-bearer. John McCain's final challenger, Mike Huckabee, bowed out with a smile. The G.O.P. can begin regrouping and mobilizing for the general election this fall while the Democrats pitch headlong into an intramural scrum that could leave their nominee - whoever wins - scarred and limping. Donna Brazile, an at-large member of the Democratic National Committee, urged party chairman Howard Dean to intervene before matters get out of hand. (Dean remains largely out of the fight, saying in a statement only that...