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...Padilla took another shot. This time, a federal judge in South Carolina ruled in his favor. But in September 2005 the Fourth Circuit court of appeals decided that, American citizen or not, Padilla could be held by the military indefinitely under the congressional resolution authorizing the war in Afghanistan. His lawyers asked the Supreme Court to review the case...
...This shift in strategy did not go over well with the Fourth Circuit, which blocked the transfer until the feds could explain what looked like an improper attempt to manipulate the case. No matter. In April 2006 the Supreme Court refused to hear Padilla's appeal and allowed the criminal charges to proceed before U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke...
...will now take place off the track. The storybook scenario would have Earnhardt behind the wheel of the number 3 car that his father drove for Richard Childress Racing, winning six of his seven season championships. While technically still active, that number has not been on the Nextel Cup circuit since Dale Earnhardt, Sr., died in a wreck at Daytona...
...Romney's training for this race started early. He was 15 when his father ran for Governor in a state in which no Republican had held the job in 14 years. Mitt worked the campaign switchboard and traveled the county-fair circuit in a Ford microvan. George put Mitt to work at the "Romney for Governor" booths, shouting over a microphone and loudspeaker system, "You should vote for my father for Governor. He's a truly great person. You've got to support him. He's going to make things better." Mitt realizes now that his dad had something...
...mess could have been averted. The AKP could have nominated someone else for President, such as the innocuous Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul, whom secularists view with less trepidation than Gul. The military could have stayed out of politics. And the secularist opposition could have refrained from trying to short-circuit the democratic process with the help of a dubious, last-minute legal gambit...