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...moment of truth in their efforts to unravel the firings. And the GOP shouldn't be entirely surprised that Mukasey is caught in the middle. His nomination, however agreeable, doesn't absolve the Administration of its sins. Will Bush fold and give Democrats the documents they seek? Expect a compromise, say several congressional staffers from both sides of the aisle. Some relevant papers may be handed over, and Mukasey will probably be confirmed sooner rather than later...
...course, that the impact of the Games is felt most intensely. Zhong Hongwu of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences calculates that total Olympics-related expenditures by Beijing will hit $38 billion, some four times as much as was spent preparing Athens for the 2004 Games. As you might expect in an authoritarian state, it is all but certain that the venues and facilities being built for the Olympics will be ready in time. Eleven of the 12 sporting venues are on track to be finished by the end of the year. A fifth subway line to the airport will...
...appeared to counter some critics of the University who have charged that students here are not sufficiently exposed to the basics of American history. Shortly after University President Lawrence H. Summers resigned in February 2006, columnist John Tierney wrote in The New York Times: “You might expect the Harvard history department to devote a course or two to the American Revolution or the Constitution, but those topics are too mundane...
With all the other Arctic nations making their plays, it would be too much to expect the U.S. - an Arctic state itself, thanks to Alaska - to stand idly by. The Coast Guard icebreaker now on its way back from plying the waters of the Chukchi Cap, north of the Bering Strait, has charted the sea floor with a multibeam echo sounder to delineate where Alaska's continental shelf ends and the depths of the Arctic Ocean begin. But to press its case for extended territorial waters, as the other Arctic nations are doing, the U.S. needs to sign the convention...
...practical political terms, Ghanem's death has reduced to just three the slim lead held in the 128-seat Lebanese parliament by the anti-Syrian majority known as the March 14 block, which forms the backbone of the Western-supported government. Lebanese parliamentarians are expected to convene on September 25 to elect a new president. The current incumbent, Emile Lahoud, a close ally of Damascus, is due to step down on November 24. Most analysts doubt that the election will be held on Tuesday and expect the crisis to continue right until the end of Lahoud's term...