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Democrats do sense a possibly potent campaign theme, but they run the risk of appearing to politicize a sensitive national-security issue as they try to prove the Administration has a credibility gap. But Democrats are not alone in feeling as though they may have been sandbagged on the evidence before the war began. Sources say G.O.P. Senate Intelligence Committee members Olympia Snowe and Hagel have privately questioned the Administration's handling of prewar intelligence. The Republican-held House voted last week to order the CIA to report back on "lessons learned" from the buildup to war in Iraq...
...dream of one nation" and to the "legitimacy" of our leadership class. Anthony Kennedy said homosexuals are entitled to "dignity" and "respect for their private lives." If nothing else, these decisions demonstrate the distance between social reality and the witless intemperance of the current political debate-indeed, the gap between reality and politics is one of the reasons Americans find politicians so odious. Which may be why George W. Bush didn't have anything to say about either decision last week...
...tell?” Glazer asked. “Almost everything depends on whether the very broad achievement gap in standard educational measures between blacks and others can be overcome…There’s a permanent tension...
...various kinds of reasons it’s been hard to hire in that area, but I think everyone recognizes that we have to keep trying, because we do have a gap there,” she said...
...stand in the same exact spot on the platform every day. Without fail, the train screeches to a halt with a pair of doors right in front of me. They slide open and I step into the car as I glance down through the gap between the train and platform to the street below...