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...freewheeling discussion," Reed says, tongue in cheek. The would-be White House contenders - Hillary Clinton of New York, John Kerry of Massachusetts, Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, Chris Dodd of Connecticut and Joseph Biden of Delaware - cover the policy spectrum from staying the course to immediate withdrawal. Said one participant in the discussions: "This truly was a herding cats situation." And the result, predictably enough, was failure...
...Still, the Democrats made an effort at agreement. Behind the scenes, a compromise was proposed in an effort to satisfy three camps: Kerry and Feingold, who wanted a deadline of Dec. 31, 2006, for combat troops out of Iraq; Dodd and others who were willing to accept Dec. 31, 2007; and a third group, including Clinton, who wanted no fixed dates for final withdrawal. The leaders suggested a general deadline of midyear 2007 for the combat troops to come out. Those resisting any deadline said they could live with such a general target, but the Kerry camp said being vague...
Sonora Smart Dodd was listening to a sermon on self-sacrifice when she decided that her father, a widower who had raised six children, deserved his very own national holiday. Almost a century later, people all over the world spend the third Sunday in June honoring their fathers with ritual offerings of aftershave and neckties, which leads millions of fathers to have precisely the same thought at precisely the same moment: "My children," they think in unison, "make me happy...
...love beyond all measure those who try our patience and weary our bones is at once our most noble and most human quality. The fact that children don't always make us happy--and that we're happy to have them nonetheless--is the fact for which Sonora Smart Dodd was so grateful. She thought we would all do well to remember it, every third Sunday in June...
...March 2002, Ney had agreed to insert language in an election bill that was being negotiated that would have lifted a gambling ban on an Indian tribal client, the Tiguas of Texas, according to the Volz plea deal. That effort failed when Sen. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut did not back it in the Senate, leaving Abramoff vulnerable to the Tiguas' wrath. Three days after they returned from the Scottish golfing trip, according to Volz's plea agreement, Volz "told Ney what Abramoff wanted him to say" in a meeting with the Tiguas. The Tiguas' lawyer, Mark Schwartz told the Senate...