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...stage because we don't want to die," Skier notes). To explore "the eerily whimsical linguistic connotations" of the term "waterboarding," Mazen and Skier will also "play on slip’n’slides and toss beach balls while singing about 'enhanced interrogation techniques,'" according to the event's Facebook page...
Several thousand people turned out for the rally, which included presentations from four Congressmen and testimonials from a janitor, a doctor, a security officer, and a nurse. The event was sponsored by Organizing for America, which President Obama founded in Jan. to advance his administration’s policy agenda, and the progressive advocacy group, Health Care for America...
...Washington, moderate and progressive Democrats are still wrangling over the details of the bill, but the speakers at the Saturday event invoked the memory of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 to push for keeping the controversial “public option” provision in the final bill...
FEMA spokesman Clark Stevens explains the process: "Fire-management assistance grants [from FEMA] provide impacted states with the financial support they need during a major fire event. These grants, requested by a governor, cover an array of firefighting expenses such as field camps, equipment use, repair and replacement, tools, materials and supplies and mobilization and demobilization activities." Stevens adds, "Since Aug. 28, Governor Schwarzenegger has requested and been granted five fire-management-assistance grants." He says FEMA will continue to work closely with California to make sure the state has the financial resources to combat wildfires. In short, if California...
...because what has happened is not over. Not with show trials being broadcast on state television, the cautionary call of a worried regime, met every night by the response across rooftops, "Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar" (God is great, God is great). Not with every holiday, religious event and memorial day an opportunity, a possibility, for protest. Things are not yet over in Iran. The phrase "Atash zire khakestar" (There is yet fire under the ash) is heard a lot these days...