Word: congress
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...signals at intersections in England, can such surveillance techniques become policy in the United States? Is privacy an eroding right in the age of pervasive and powerful technology? These are interesting questions raised by Enemy of the State, and will no doubt be issues debated on the floor of Congress over the next few years. One day, Big Brother could be watching...
...people having cocktail parties and I say 'What are you doing?'" said Swasey, who is running with vice presidential candidate Jared S. White '00. "I have no great big staff; no war room. This is a campaign for the U.C., not for Congress...
...Senator, when you ask about a cover-up, are you referring to that pathetically unconvincing toupee?" "I'll make you an offer, Congressman. You put away those notes, and I'll answer questions your staff didn't write for you." I know I'll be risking a contempt-of-Congress citation. But remember what the lawyer said when a pompous judge asked him, "Counselor, are you trying to show contempt for this court?" "No, your honor," the lawyer replied. "I'm trying to conceal...
Doctors combatting malignant tumors often resort to radical surgery to cut out the diseased tissue. So why can't the U.S. military perform a total Saddamectomy? The idea is bubbling anew in Congress and among Bush Administration advisers who passed up the chance to remove the Iraqi dictator in 1991, when U.S. troops were in his neighborhood. But it's not a serious topic in the Pentagon tank, the top-secret meeting room in which the Joint Chiefs of Staff plot strategy. In fact, Marine General Anthony Zinni, who as chief of the U.S. Central Command would oversee...
Ahmed Allawi, an AK-47 rifle slung over his shoulder, crouched in a hilltop cemetery in northern Iraq on a chilly night in March 1995. He and other guerrillas were launching their first armed assault on the Iraqi army since the formation of the opposition Iraqi National Congress three years earlier...