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Even then, Hernquist suggests, the switch to Gen Ed may not be the end of Cosmic Connections...
...Director Gen. Michael Hayden has admitted that in 2005 the CIA destroyed two videotapes of interrogations of al-Qaeda prisoners, including a central figure in 9/11, Abu Zubaydah. Hayden said the tapes were destroyed to protect the identities of the CIA interrogators from members of al-Qaeda and other terrorists who might try to retaliate. He also claims that the tapes were made to safeguard against unlawful treatment of detainees, and that they were only destroyed after it was confirmed that suspects were not being tortured...
That's not to say Christmas Story or its viewers are cynical. It's nostalgic--but for the past's faults, not its imagined perfection. It's the nostalgia of its Gen-X and -Y fans, who remember childhood in terms of divorces and bad haircuts...
...been reticent. Maintaining a silence while Washington waves sticks and carrots at its wayward prot?g? serves India's purpose just as well. Last week's visit to Pakistan by Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte was followed with much interest in India. Some analysts saw his meeting with Lt. Gen. Ashfaq Kiyani, tipped to be the next army chief, as preparation for what would follow after Musharraf steps down as Army Chief of Staff. "The most unfortunate scenario would be if, post-elections, the Pakistan army's support should get divided between Musharraf and Kiyani," says Behuria, "The army...
...would seem, Senator Clinton. In discussing the New York Senator, McCain kept almost entirely to differences on specific policy points: withdrawal from Iraq, negotiating with Iran, taxes. Only once did he stray into the even vaguely personal; in reference to Clinton's dismissal of Gen. David Petraeus's Iraq testimony as requiring a "willing suspension of disbelief,"McCain said that she was allowing "the fringe of her party [to] pull her toward a position she knows is irresponsible...