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...Frustrated prosecutors, not surprisingly, weren't willing to admit defeat. So to spare his family the emotional havoc of a retrial, al-Arian cut a deal. After months of negotiations, the Feds announced this week that the USF professor had pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to provide services to the PIJ, such as immigration assistance to its members and lying about a former associate's affiliation with the terrorist group. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for May 1. But though guidelines call for 46 to 57 months in prison, al-Arian, who was born in Kuwait...
...small taste of what’s to come. Much of the information therein is more or less innocuous: it’s unlikely that the family of E.Q. Abbot ’06 (that’s 1906) is going to be terribly embarrassed by his chess defeat at the hands of A. Breese of Yale in November of 1904, particularly given that the Harvard team won out in the end. The great great grandchildren of Joseph M. Cromwell are not quite as fortunate however—it’s now a matter of easily-searchable public record...
...Obviously the morale of the country was down because of the defeat in the Peninsula Campaign. When Lincoln shouldered that responsibility for it, it meant he could keep Stanton, who turned out to be an historically good secretary...
...McClellan, after the Peninsula defeat, which most historians would argue was due in large part to mistakes that McClellan made, was vociferous in arguing wherever he could that the problem was the Secretary of War Edwin Stanton's failure to send him enough troops. McClellan writes to his wife: "You want to know how I feel about Stanton and what I think of him now? I think he's the most unmitigated scoundrel I ever knew, heard of, or read of." McClellan was also feeding these criticisms to the newspapers. It became a huge outcry against Stanton...
...backs Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek in his fight against Japanese occupation. After World War II, Mao Zedong's Communists defeat Chiang's Nationalists, who flee to Taiwan. Mao founds the People's Republic of China, and more than two decades of isolation from the West begin...