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...usually did); but at least it got the juices flowing. And this meant, I suspect, that many of those with political views a million miles from those of Safire - to adopt W.H. Auden on William Butler Yeats - pardoned him for writing well. They missed him when he'd gone...
Many details, however, remain unclear: the plot's real targets, for instance, and just how far the plotters had gone before the FBI disrupted their plans. Here are three of the case's central questions that are still unanswered...
Sparkman, who had worked with the Census Bureau in five counties since 2003, was a well-liked man who'd gone back to school to get his teaching certification, according to published reports. Despite his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma diagnosis, he continued working for the Census and substitute teaching at an elementary school in adjacent Laurel County while waiting for a full-time position to open up. (See pictures of crime in Middle America...
...economic-stimulus plan in February. The White House has assiduously courted her; its budget director, Peter Orszag, interrupted his Maine vacation in August to have dinner with Snowe and an aide at a Greek restaurant in Portland. And the amicability has been mutual. While others in the GOP have gone so far as to brand Obama a socialist for his effort to expand the government's role in an industry that accounts for one-sixth of the nation's economy, Snowe told the New York Times that Obama is "very realistic in his views on health care ... more moderate than...
...President, during the summer you blamed foreign elements, foreign reporters, foreign governments, for the protests that followed the election. The foreign press is gone from Iran, but the protests continue so I would like to know what you think is behind them and why heroes of the Islamic revolution like Mr. Rafsanjani and Mr. Musabi should be involved in the opposition. What rights exactly does the opposition have under your constitution? What we have in Iran are freedoms and competition. Is there anything from with Mr. Rafsanjani and Mr. Musabi competing with me or even being opposed to my views...