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...plan with him." What was left unsaid, of course, was that four and a half years after 9/11, that goal remains as elusive as ever, and Afghan President Karzai and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf have traded barbs in recent days charging the other with not doing enough to crack down on Al Qaeda...
With Washington reeling from the Abramoff lobbying scandal and Republicans and Democrats alike pledging to crack down on influence peddling, with one lawmaker already gone from Capitol Hill because he traded favors for cash, you're probably guessing this isn't the best time for members of Congress to dispense a fortune in favors to their friends...
...NATIONAL TRAUMA. Well, the fracture in our society widened. It's still there--that crack still goes down the middle of it. You could call the war a trauma. It was, of course. But it had an epic quality to it. It was more than a trauma, really. Sherman's march was not only a devastating military campaign, it was like a great scythe that cut down and uprooted an entire culture. By creating thousands of refugees, black and white, who attached themselves to the march, it became another reality, another state of being. A floating world. Everything was reversed...
...comment. Jan Baran, an attorney who has often represented elected officials caught in ethics cases, said Justice may be ?saber rattling? since the ethics panels cover congressional rules and not criminal offenses, which are Justice's province alone. But if Justice is really just trying to warn Congress to crack down on sleazy conduct, ?I think they're correct.... Not only the Department of Justice, but I think the public is telling Congress: if you're going to have some rules make sure people obey them...
...ranked World Cup downhill skier, Kildow felt some trepidation midway down the run near the crash point, but gained speed on the bottom portion to crack the top 10. "I just wanted to know that I could have done it," she said. "I guess I thought that the result would have been a lot better, but I'm just happy to have raced...