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For the 1.7 million business travelers who have flocked to New Orleans for a convention or a trade show this year, Bourbon Street beckons like an out-of-work college pal, the one with the six-figure severance. Have a few hours to kill before the plastics panel? Come over...
Well, he called and apologized for that. He claims it was all out of context. When people were asking about the convention, I said that part of the problem now is that not much business is done there, that it's all prepackaged. Nonetheless, we all go, in case something...
Cahill said the one campaign decision she wished she could have changed was the timing of the Democratic National Convention (DNC).
Before he stepped down from his post as a U.S. assistant attorney general this summer, Goldsmith penned a March draft memo arguing that Central Intelligence Agency officials could transfer Iraqi detainees out of their native country for interrogation without violating the Geneva Convention.
The 1948 Genocide Convention covers the actions of the janjaweed killers. Their goal is to wipe out the Darfurians as a group; they are urged on by the flames of ethnic hatred fanned by the central Sudanese government in Khartoum under President Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir.