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...Klein masterfully laid out the explanation of why the worthwhile Teach for America organization was defunded by the Federal Government's AmeriCorps program [IN THE ARENA, Aug. 25]. Limited resources plague even the richest nation in the world. When we insist on funding items like the F-22 Raptor fighter jet and a missile-defense shield with billions upon billions of dollars, we crowd out money for valuable things like education and social programs. President Eisenhower, a five-star general, warned us to increase our scrutiny of defense spending. Nonetheless, we find ourselves with a $400 billion defense budget. Neither...
PRINCE BANDAR Ambassador to the U.S. Son of Prince Sultan, he received fighter pilot training in the U.S. and Britain...
Throughout his career, Heydar Aliyev - President of Azerbaijan, KGB general and veteran of spectacular Kremlin intrigues in the waning years of the U.S.S.R. - was a consummate in-fighter who prided himself on total control of the state machine. Earlier this month, as the 80-year-old Aliyev lay in a Turkish hospital, reportedly near death, he pulled off his final piece of political gamesmanship: the appointment of his 41-year-old son, Ilham, as Prime Minister, ensuring that should Heydar die or become incapacitated, Ilham can take over as acting President. And as a Russian IL-62 flying hospital rushed...
...bearing Kalashnikovs and RPG launchers vowing to avenge Uday and Qusay Hussein. The footage was shot on a dusty street in broad daylight "somewhere in Iraq," the network explained. Not to be outdone, Jazeera's Dubai-based competitor Al-Arabiya on Thursday carried footage of a self-styled 'fedayeen' fighter, masked in a keffiyeh and touting an RPG, warning that attacks will intensify...
...Matrix and an angry green giant - all year long, pixel-pushing superheroes have been smashing their way across cinema screens. In Ireland, a quieter kind of crime fighter is pulling in the crowds: Cate Blanchett as Veronica Guerin, the Irish reporter who went head to head with Dublin's drug barons in the mid-'90s and paid for it with her life. Veronica Guerin - the second film about the iconic journalist - follows her as she digs for the source of the city's drug supply. Hardheaded and hungry for a story, Guerin is threatened, shot at and severely beaten before...