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...North American leader - was acquitted on eight of 17 counts. The jury deadlocked on the remaining counts against him, but jurors later indicated to reporters that most of them had favored acquittal on those charges as well. The government, they said, simply wasn't able to establish a clear link between al-Arian's constitutionally protected freedom to express support for the PIJ and the group's violent acts half a world away. It was one of the Justice Department's most embarrassing legal setbacks since 9/11...
...photo-op at the White House had already injected a sour note to the trip. A senior U.S. official says Hu and his entourage were initially offered a visit to Bush's ranch in Texas or an overnight stay at Camp David in the hope that they might establish a rapport in a more casual setting. But Beijing's insistence on a formal reception at the White House led to those offers being dropped. The squabbling broke out in public in March when White House spokesman Scott McClellan contradicted Chinese officials and asserted that the U.S. was not designating...
...routs of last weekend’s competition on the road. The Crimson took a quick three-seat lead off of the start and built the margin to a length as both boats went under the Mass. Ave. Bridge at the midway point.But Harvard never was able to establish open water, and Dartmouth took advantage of the contact with the Crimson’s boat to make a move at the 1,000. “We were in a position in that we were doing well, but it was kind of bad, too, because anything within a length...
...long as insurgents are allowed to operate freely in Iraqi cities like Fallujah, the U.S. has little hope of establishing any lasting order. U.S. commanders are developing plans to eliminate insurgent no-go zones in the Sunni triangle, west and north of Baghdad. "The strategy is to get local control to the maximum extent by December," a U.S. general says. But the U.S. wants to hold off on major combat until sufficient numbers of Iraqi forces are trained and equipped to fight alongside American forces, which isn't likely until after the U.S. presidential election. The participation of Iraqis...
...crucial element of the overhaul has been financial. The palace now directly spends a lot of the money that different government departments used to spend on its behalf, which has allowed it to take control over its own operations, establish budgets and cut costs that might otherwise have continued on autopilot. (One example: the certificates people receive when they obtain honors are now generated by computer rather than calligrapher, saving $27 approximately 5,000 times a year.) There's more public disclosure too, in particular an annual financial report launched at a press conference and published on the Web. Last...