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...case of Noorzai is just more evidence of the plague of groupthink that has struck U.S. decision makers, from the mishandling of pre-9/11 intelligence to the mistakes in Iraq. Officials made contact with a valuable source but then just let him rot in jail with the crucial information. Such missteps have cost billions of taxpayers' dollars and thousands of soldiers' lives...
...more transparent about her new policy and, if it is not reconsidered, try to find ways to work with clubs so that concerts and events held at clubs do not become a thing of the past. Malone has of course repeatedly asserted that a club venue hosting concerts can contact her office for an exemption from the 11 p.m. deadline, saying she has already granted “about a dozen.” While this sporadic sort of clemency is commendable, it is but a small comfort as the broad measure continues to apply to every licensed club...
...liberation of free thinking, the passion of reciprocated love, and the melody that comes from various arrangements of keys on a piano. To the audience’s surprise, as well as Wiesler’s, the stoicism of the Stasi agent is gradually edged away through his close contact with Dreyman’s life. The elegant internal conflict that Wiesler experiences is the predominant struggle in the film, as what he stands for begins to crumble and his loyalties shift from the GDR to the greater concerns of the human condition. Along with Mühe?...
Studies have shown that blood levels of the hormone melatonin are stifled by contact with bright light boxes. High melatonin levels may be responsible for lower body temperatures, which can cause a person to feel less energetic...
...Lieberman is uniquely positioned to influence the Bush Administration. In December 2004 the White House "sounded him out" for the job of U.N. ambassador, says a source close to Lieberman, and although he declined the offer, he remains in regular contact with the Executive Branch. Before Bush's State of the Union speech in January, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley brought in Lieberman for a private consultation with the President. Lieberman says he talks with or e-mails Hadley, Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff and White House legislative-affairs head Candida Wolff every week...