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...DIED. CLEMENT (SIR COXSONE) DODD, 72, pioneering Jamaican music producer who launched the influential Studio One and was the first person to record Bob Marley and the Wailers; in Kingston, Jamaica. In the 1950s, he operated some of the most popular "sound systems"?makeshift turntable and speaker sets that played dance records for partygoers?which helped lay the foundation for hip-hop and DJ culture...
...lawyer, rightly challenges the basic assumptions the government made when her client was detained. The most important issue is whether Padilla, arrested on American soil, should be declared an enemy combatant in the first place. The government’s lawyer, Deputy Solicitor General Paul D. Clement, claims that because the war on terror is global the whole of the United States is a battleground as well. But if the Supreme Court accepts this justification, it will open the way for the Executive Branch to wield the same kinds of “emergency powers” so often misused...
...defeat" carries things way too far. It was the British navy and air force that kept the Nazis from invading Britain. But final victory required having Russia and the U.S. on Britain's side. So whether the British Prime Minister had been Neville Chamberlain or Winston Churchill or Clement Attlee, there would not have been a British defeat at the hands of the Nazis. Wolfgang J. Remark Markgroeningen, Germany...
...toughness is a vital part of the struggle. But he's deeply vulnerable because of these trends. The British people ejected Churchill not because they disapproved of his war but because they didn't think he was the man to lead them in peacetime. Churchill's opponent in 1945, Clement Attlee, was, like John Kerry today, no heavyweight. In Churchill's words, Attlee was a "a modest man who has much to be modest about." But he still crushed Churchill at the polls. The first President Bush faced the same problem. With the Gulf War and the cold war over...
...DIED. CLEMENT CONGER, 91, White House and State Department curator who restored diplomatic reception rooms to their grandeur in the late 19th century; in Delray Beach, Fla. Known in Washington as "the Grand Acquisitor," he amassed an Americana collection of antiques and fine art worth more than $100 million, one of the largest in the world...