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...leaning against a window. As the powerfully built 6-ft. 3-in. officer approached, wearing his Sig Sauer handgun and a peaked hat, the man began to move in the other direction. "Are you flying today, sir?" said McGhee. It took him less than a minute of questioning to confirm that this was just a kid waiting to pick up a family friend...
...Scottish court convicted a Libyan intelligence agent in 2001 - Gaddafi dodged: "Is it not unbelievable that a responsible country, a member of the U.N., would do such an act? Libya was a leading country to condemn such acts." Western diplomats agree that progress is being made but won't confirm Gaddafi's claim of a deal. And Washington, which has long demanded a full confession, is unlikely to be impressed. "Libya knows what it needs to do," says State Department spokesman Philip Reeker. "There are no shortcuts and no lowering of the bar." Gaddafi is desperate...
...Paul's church, the home parish of Gene Robinson, sits in a quiet street in Concord, New Hampshire. On Tuesday evening a small group of his supporters gathered around a television inside to watch the results of the voting to confirm Robinson as their Bishop, the?first openly gay man to hold the office in the history of the Episcopal church.?A technician from a local TV station, there to cover the event, fumbled to hook the TV up to cable. Just before the announcement, it flickered into life...
...that the CPP dump Hun Sen and choose someone else to be Prime Minister If the deadlock persists, Hun Sen has only himself to blame. After the CPP lost the 1993 elections, it was he who pushed through the constitutional provision requiring a two-thirds National Assembly vote to confirm a government, virtually guaranteeing his own place in subsequent coalitions. Asserting what he calls a mandate from the people, Hun Sen declared last week that if no one wants to join a coalition, he'll simply rule by himself. That's one election promise that no one doubts...
...were digesting the events in Iraq. They talked, recalled Representative Joe Barton, a Republican from Texas, about "how it's very easy to get support for a pure military operation, but it's a lot more difficult when you're peacekeeping and rooting out the terrorists." This seemed to confirm what the President had privately been telling his staff for days. He had had it with the second-guessing, the postwar revisionists, the nitpicking over a single sentence that he had uttered six months earlier. Bush has been arguing that it is time to go on the offensive, or people...