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...victims of the war, few have had such a pitiful history as the Hmong. Recruited, armed and trained by the CIA to conduct a "secret war" in officially neutral Laos, the Hmong fought to contain Vietnamese troop movements along the Ho Chi Minh Trail through central Laos and to rescue downed American flyers involved in a covert bombing campaign. The Hmong campaign was not publicly acknowledged by the U.S. until 1994, when former CIA Director William Colby told Congress of the Hmong's "heroism and sacrifice." Shortly after the Pathet Lao regime took power in 1975-two years after...
BUSH His service was honorable, as far as I'm concerned. This debate ought to be about who can lead the war on terror. And that's where I'll conduct it. Look, I know there's a lot of consternation about 527s [groups outside the political parties that can spend unlimited amounts of money to influence elections]. I share the same consternation. When I signed that [campaign-finance-reform] bill, I thought we got rid of this kind of stuff--unregulated soft money, billionaires pouring money into a campaign. I can understand why Senator Kerry is upset with...
...point they were unanimous: the service would have no religious content. Even years ago, when the children were attending Sunday school, Leevers sensed her mother was less than devout: "She used just to drop us and leave." So on her passing they chose Sydney celebrant John Hill to conduct the service, which featured speeches from June's two sons, a song from one of her granddaughters, many references to her great passion - gardening - and none to God. About 100 people attended the service. "And many of them told us how wonderful they thought it was," says Leevers. "We know...
...South Sydney, Rob Forsyth, predicts secular and religious funerals "will eventually reach a point of equilibrium." While that's probably some years away in most Australian and New Zealand cities and not even close in the bush, celebrants in the more liberal centers of Melbourne and Auckland already conduct substantially more than half of the funerals. And services themselves are evolving as celebrants and the public grapple with a question: what, precisely, is the purpose of a non-religious funeral? Adhering to Judeo-Christian principles, funerals in both countries used to be predictable. Between prayers and hymns, a clergyman spoke...
...Kerry not remember what he had said to Stephanopoulos? No, it was, apparently, yet another Kerry nanonuance: he is in favor of redeployments, just not now. The second question is far more dire: Why is Kerry wasting breath on such periphera? Why isn't he hammering Bush on his conduct of the Iraq war and the larger war against Islamist radicalism, which is the most important issue in this election...