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...website, just above the picture of him in Navy whites briefing President Clinton in the Oval Office, is a typical resume line: "As the [George Washington] Battle Group Commander, he led an international coalition force of 30 U.S. and allied ships and 15,000 sailors, exercising command of combat operations in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as senior diplomatic engagements throughout Southwest Asia, Europe and Africa." A giddy Congressman Rahm Emmanuel, head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, says Sestak, "neutralizes the national security issue...
President Bush has habitually complained about "too much leaking in Washington," but it turns out he used his declassification power to combat attacks on the Administration's case for invading Iraq. Democrats call it a leak. The White House calls it a factual rebuttal. After several days of neither confirming nor denying testimony by ex--White House aide I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, officials close to Vice President Cheney said the President indeed declassified part of a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) in 2003 but left the method of releasing it up to others. After a conversation with Cheney, Libby delivered...
...goal is "imperceptible change." It's not a goal, it's a way of life. This is a forward-looking organization. It's the nature of this business. For example, when the question arose whether I as a member of the royal family should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no question in her mind, though there was in other people's, and it only took her two days to sort the issue...
...Ultras: Spanish Football's Rad-icals, disagrees. "There's a lot of hypocrisy in Spain about this," he says. "People don't want to admit to the racism that exists in this country." Piara Powar, director of Kick It Out, a London-based organization that works to combat racism in soccer, concurs. "The problems in Spain," he says, "stem from the way in which the subjects of race and ethnicity are not really part of public debate." That may be changing. The Spanish government has invested some €200 million in campaigns to promote tolerance, including screening educational films...
...invites female political leaders to speak with students “behind closed doors” about their experiences as women in the electoral process and facilitates skill-training sessions with the nation’s leading campaign strategists, Budson said. Lee said she hopes the endowment will help combat the under-representation of women in U.S. politics. “A program like this is helping young women to be in a community where it is acceptable and positive to have ambitions,” she said. Women hold only 14 percent of the seats in the U.S. Senate...