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...Served as a Vista Volunteer on a Montana Indian reservation for two years after law school. Then returned to Connecticut to join the State's Attorney's office. (Read "Officials Defend CIA's Use of Contractors...
...business? I was training clients in physical defense, and one of them mentioned she knew a socialite who did something stupid and had to go to prison. She didn't know anything about it, and she was scared. She wanted to prepare for it, to learn how to defend herself...
...will continue to fight to protect Rifqa's safety and well-being as we move forward." Of course, Crist's conservative primary opponent, former Florida house speaker Marco Rubio, released his own communiqué: "Florida not only has a responsibility to protect [Rifqa's] innocent life, but also to defend her sacred right to worship freely." True enough. But despite the heated rhetoric once again fueling a Florida fracas, it's not at all clear that Rifqa Bary's rights are in danger...
...anniversary of the conflict in South Ossetia also saw Medvedev backing an initiative that would give a legal basis for deploying the Russian military abroad to defend Russian citizens and armed forces from attack - precisely the reason given by Moscow for its intervention last year. This raises concerns about the Kremlin's designs on Ukraine's Crimean peninsula, which has a large ethnic Russian population and is home to the Black Sea Fleet. (Read: "A Year After War, South Ossetia More Dependent on Russia...
...newest of the four services of the U.S. military - the other three boast they are older than the country they defend, while the Air Force, around since 1947, barely qualifies for Social Security - its members often feel they don't get the credit they deserve. True, fighter pilots get an outsize share of attention to match their egos. But it's the flyboys-and-girls ferrying people, fuel and supplies - and piloting reconnaissance flights - around the globe that keep the war machine humming. "Petraeus, as leader of Centcom, the joint force charged with running operations in Southwest Asia, should have...