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...While the details of their trip have been kept secret (indeed, the Obama campaign has refused to even publicly confirm that he is going), Obama's choice of traveling companions is telling. Both Hagel and Reed have been vocal advocates for troop withdrawal, though they split over the initial vote to authorize President Bush to use military force to oust Saddam Hussein, with Reed opposing the invasion and Hagel supporting it. Both carry enormous influence on military issues on Capitol Hill and have strong ties to the Pentagon. Obama's invitation of Hagel is also meant to send a signal...
...Kurtz says he showed the police catalogs of his past exhibits, including one on genetically modified plants at the Corcoran Art Gallery in Washington, D.C. "I told them, I am a professor. Please call my boss and confirm this with her," says Kurtz. After the medical examiner told the police that Hope's cause of death was not strangulation, as officers had initially speculated (her death would be ruled heart failure), the police left...
...timetable. "Maliki's announcement reached me yesterday. It was a good announcement, and we salute him," the head of the Sadrist political office, Lewa Smiesem, told TIME. "But I have to emphasize again that there must be a clear vision from the Iraqi government on the ground to confirm such a position. At the end of the day, we will support him if he's really serious on the matter." Even with such caveats, the general support from Iraq's Shi'ite majority for al-Maliki's move is critical as the Prime Minister builds support ahead of elections...
...Metropolis fan), decided to sift through old archive material, following a tip-off from a former film club director, and discovered two dusty film cans containing a 16mm copy of the original. Felix-Didier took the material to Berlin to have film experts, amongst them Rother and Wilkening, confirm its authenticity before exclusively allowing the German weekly Die Zeit to make the findings public. Indeed, it has subsequently come to light that a long version of the film was first sent to Buenos Aires back in 1928 at the request of the Terra film distribution company. A film critic named...
LINDSAY LOHAN may have a secret half sister. Officials await blood-alcohol-test results to confirm...