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...addition to becoming the first top-level U.S. politician to meet with Than Shwe, Webb was allowed to see detained Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, a privilege denied to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon when he visited last month. Webb's trip came just days after a military-backed court sentenced Suu Kyi to 18 months of house arrest. The democracy advocate, who has been locked up for 14 of the past 20 years, was punished in a bizarre case in which an American swam uninvited to her lakeside villa. The verdict virtually guarantees that...
...fantasy life that drains your riches is, in this particular economy, perhaps not the greatest idea. And yet there you are - if you count yourself among the millions of Americans who indulge in fantasy football - spending your hard-earned money and precious time pretending to be an NFL general manager. Tom Brady is not really on your team, my sweet - dare I say deluded? - friend. Your draft decisions don't affect reality. They only, sadly, bore your nonfantasy friends...
...Kennedy’s voting record also shows general support for limiting executive power, smoking prevention, and alternative energy, though he was accused of NIMBY-ism in his opposition to Cape Wind, a proposal for an offshore wind farm near Cape Cod. In the last decade, Kennedy has pushed for accountability and greater humanitarian aid in Iraq...
...memo recounts McCain's reaction this way: "[S]everal Members of Congress, including the full memberships of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees and Senator McCain, were briefed by General Michael Hayden, Director of the CIA, on the six techniques that we discuss herein," writes Steven G. Bradbury, a deputy assistant attorney general in the July 20, 2007, memo, which cites a CIA summary of the discussions. "In those classified and private conversations, none of the Members expressed the view that the CIA detention and interrogation program should be stopped, or that the techniques at issue were inappropriate." (See TIME...
...months later, however, Ridge says he did get the sense that politics might be at play. There was a heated discussion on the weekend before the 2004 election, in which Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Attorney General John Ashcroft made their case in vain to raise the terrorism threat level. Ridge now admits that he thought political calculation might have been at play. (Polls supporting Bush tended to spike when the terrorism threat level went up.) But he is not about to accuse either Rumsfeld or Ashcroft of letting politics cloud their judgment. "I'm not trying to second-guess...