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...failed to destroy Hizballah's leadership or even halt its barrage of rockets, and 159 Israelis died in the conflict. As a result, the presence of the reservists on Olmert's doorstep is more than an eyesore. Protests by army reservists--practically every Israeli home has one--tend to gather momentum. And this movement is being joined by families of soldiers killed in the brawl with Hizballah. All that has sent Olmert's political stock plummeting. At the start of the Lebanon campaign, he was seen as tough and decisive, a lanky Churchill puffing a cigar. Today 63% of Israelis...
When hundreds gather for Thursday's Kentucky Governor's Annual Ham Breakfast at the state fair, it's a safe bet that the draw will be the prized ham - which last year brought a record $340,000 at auction - and not Gov. Ernie Fletcher. The governor, whose 2003 election capped nearly a decade of prior Republican gains in the once-Democrat-dominated state, finds himself with few friends and a growing list of potential challengers from within his own party. His tenuous re-election prospects - and the distancing from Fletcher by the state's Republican chieftain, Senator Mitch McConnell - suggest...
Every July the country's leading disaster scientists and emergency planners gather in Boulder, Colo., for an invitation-only workshop. Picture 440 people obsessed with the tragic and the safe, people who get excited about earthquake "shake maps" and righteous about flood insurance. It's a spirited but wonky crowd that is growing more melancholy every year...
...fund raiser for Hillary last summer on Nantucket in Massachusetts, his introductory remarks were longer than her speech, recalls a prominent Democrat who was there. As the guest of honor's turn to speak finally came, much of the crowd migrated to the other side of the pool to gather where her husband continued to talk...
...Peter King, chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, in a phone call late Wednesday night. "This one has really gotten to me." A British official says investigators believe the bombers planned waves of attacks. By blowing up planes over the Atlantic, they would make it nearly impossible to gather forensic evidence. Then after people returned to flying, the terrorists would strike again. That benign items--iPods and soda bottles, the stuff of teenagers' backpacks--could be turned into weapons of mass destruction seemed like a new, unsettling perversion. Or at least it felt...