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...ensuing media frenzy led to Warren's testifying a few times on Capitol Hill, where she caught the eye of Senate majority leader Harry Reid. When asked how she ended up on Reid's short list, Warren says, "I took away from the conversation that my presence was about American families having a stake in the outcome of these powerful decisions that are being made. So I've never apologized for caring about and raising issues that relate directly to them...
American Presidents have opposed Israeli settlements in the West Bank since Israel conquered it in 1967. But in practice, they've mostly turned a blind eye. In 1991, President George H.W. Bush showed why when he tried to condition loan guarantees to Israel on a halt to settlement growth and stirred up a nasty political hornet's nest in the process. He won only 11% of the Jewish vote the following year. (See pictures of 60 years of Israel...
Despite lack of parrots and eye patches, SWEDEN'S PIRATE PARTY wins an E.U. Parliament seat...
...Rumsfeld's decision while in office not to tell his side of things and to ban his staff from providing insider accounts was motivated, he said, out of a sense of loyalty to the president. He wanted to be able to look Bush in the eye and assert that neither he nor any of his aides were behind any of the stories disclosing the administration's secret discussions. But he has had second thoughts about having kept...
...this not been Russia, Glazunov might have defended his work. Instead, he complemented Putin on his eye for detail and said he would correct the mistake. Under the current climate, he was probably right to - when it comes to Russian art, going up against the authorities has its consequences...