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...firm hold on Sicily. "Patronage is illegality," she said. "The Mafia's relationship with the economic and political world has slowed development, and impoverished Sicily." Borsellino says her opponent's decision to run despite the Mafia charges "sends a very bad message" to Sicilians. Cuffaro, a longtime Christian Democrat party stalwart, has tried to steer debate away from the Mafia. "Borsellino is an upstanding person," he says. "But she's there because she's a symbol, and Sicilians won't vote for someone who is just a symbol." In last month's national elections, won narrowly by the center-left...
...That candor earned Hayden praise from even one of the NSA program's strongest critics, Democrat Russ Feingold, a member of the intelligence committee and a likely 2008 presidential candidate. Feingold asked a few tough questions, but he repeatedly emphasized his strong respect for Hayden. His positive comments and those of other Democrats suggest Hayden will be confirmed easily as CIA director, as they continue to try to carefully criticize the NSA program without appearing weak on national security issues...
...those conservatives. But he also tried to cast himself as a reasonable centrist, fighting for what he called a "rational middle ground" between massive amnesty and rounding up more than 10 million illegal immigrants and deporting them. Neither idea is really on the table. (Rep. Linda Sanchez, a California Democrat, jokes that Republicans had enough trouble moving 250,000 New Orleanians who wanted to be evacuated. "And we knew where they were," she gibes.) But Bush's attempt to thread the needle-coming up with a bill that's tough enough to appease his conservative base and still containing enough...
DIED. Gillespie (Sonny) Montgomery, 85, homespun 15-term Congressman from Mississippi who championed higher education for veterans; in Meridian, Miss. Elected in 1966 after serving in World War II and the Korean War, the conservative Democrat created the Montgomery G.I. Bill in 1984, modernizing the 1940s G.I. Bill and expanding it for the peacetime, volunteer military...
...role as its architect and the White House's earlier affirmations that it involved only international communications by people with "known links" to al-Qaeda and did not have ordinary Americans in its sights. The latest revelations could raise "additional substantial questions about the general's credibility," says Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden, a Senate Intelligence Committee member...