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...this extraordinary story, which gave chilling insight into the minds of those who hate Americans and kill our soldiers. Our media and politicians have a tendency to turn these people into stereotypical villains or just statistics, but that doesn't help us understand them. If we want to defeat our enemies, we must understand them. Your correspondent obviously puts himself in great danger when he meets people like Abdallah, and I would like him to know that I appreciate it. I hope folks in Washington and generals in the Pentagon are reading stories like this and learning valuable lessons about...
...latest plot. That suggests a new approach. Since the beginning of the decade, Britain passed four separate laws that extended the authorities' rights to investigate and monitor suspects and seize their assets. Blair did not have everything his own way; in 2005 he suffered his first-ever defeat in the House of Commons when members of his own party voted with the opposition to thwart an extension of the period police can hold suspects without charge from 14 to 90 days...
...that opened the way to questions about buying Libby's silence. If he let Libby go to jail, his critics still wouldn't love him. And what support he continues to command comes mostly from conservatives who were strongly in favor of his helping Libby. Just days after the defeat of the White House--backed immigration bill, to which conservatives were cool or worse, the Libby commutation could let the President renew some of his old luster in their eyes...
...Zealand has won two of the last four America's Cups and been runner-up in the other two. That is a better record than the country has in the next event to which it will turn its attention, September's Rugby World Cup in France. For many Kiwis, defeat on the water is one thing. Defeat on the rugby pitch... now, that's pain...
...traditional Peronist voters: "The electoral role of Cristina is very important because President Kirchner lacks support in the Peronist party structure; furthermore, he actually mistrusts the party structure." The timing appears to be keyed to Peronist setbacks in a number of recent provincial elections. The most resounding was a defeat in the federal capital of Buenos Aires, in which the conservative millionaire businessman and Boca football club president Mauricio Macri won an astounding 61% of the vote against the Peronist Education Minister Daniel Filmus...