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...ushered out and replaced by former presidential budget director Joshua B. Bolten, political analysts in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other national publications speculated that the administration might have been trying to signal that it was ready for fresh thinking about divisive issues, such as the conflict in Iraq. “I’m not saying the people in America knew who Andy Card was, but I do think the people of America knew that there was a chief of staff, so if you change a chief of staff, you must be changing things...
...drew her to the study of Arabic culture. “A lot of Jewish people study the Middle East and Arabic as a kind of counterbalance to their ethnic identity,” she says. “They want to understand this culture they see themselves in conflict with...
...Congress, Leach also took progressive positions on the environment and on gay rights. He won an award from the Sierra Club in 1999 and an endorsement from the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights advocacy organization, in 2006.Leach’s positions have occasionally brought him into conflict with his own party leadership. In 1996, he voted against the GOP’s nominee for speaker of the House, citing ethics concerns about then-Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.).Despite those tensions, Leach helped to push through one of the biggest banking reforms in U.S. history, the Gramm-Leach...
Early concerns about Tasers centered on the issue of safety, but the controversy has recently taken a new twist, focusing on the conflict between civil rights and police procedure. Though the device was initially developed as an alternative to lethal force, it has become a go-to weapon in situations of noncompliance even when the use of firearms would not be considered - like the incident with Meyer, who agreed to 18 months of probation on Tuesday in order to avoid criminal charges of resisting arrest. "I think because it's electricity, and because of past use of electricity in torture...
Sudan is infamously mired in civil conflict in its western region of Darfur. But for nearly two years now, the country's 10 southern provinces have begun to emerge from their own 20-year war with the central government in Khartoum that left the territory physically ravaged but in possession of oil, minerals, wildlife and forests. With its capital in the city of Juba, south Sudan, a semi-autonomous region with 6 million residents, now has an annual budget of $1.2 billion and is in possession of most of Sudan's oil reserves. Foreign investors are clamoring...