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...Mohammed and Padilla under "enhanced interrogation," the Senator asked if the claim were accurate. Soufan, ducking the unsubtle invitation to call Bush a liar, suggested that the former President was misinformed. "I think the President - my own personal opinion here, based on my recollection - he was told probably half-truth," Soufan said...
...Fisheries patrol vessel, a State Oceanographic Administration patrol vessel and two small Chinese-flagged trawlers. McCreary noted that the two fishing trawlers involved were about as "civilian" as the government-owned U.S. spy ship. (A Pentagon-produced story about the event said a "civilian crew mans the ship," a half-truth that was repeated around the world by other media outlets. In fact, about half its roughly 50-member crew is military.) "The Chinese, like the North Koreans, the Indians and the Soviets, maintain positive control of fishing fleets which come under military supervision in a crisis," McCreary said...
...have your shadow that follows you everywhere. Now you stand and Google casts a "shadow you" on you. You've got this thing that follows you no matter where you go. It's going to survive your real shadow long after you're dead. It's composed of truth, half-truth, lies, vengeance, wishful thinking, accuracy, inaccuracy. It grows and grows and gets bigger. It's you but it's not you. Mine's pretty large at the moment but I think in a few years, everyone's is going to be huge. It won't be just people...
...possible - or desirable. Europe can survive and thrive with euroskeptics in the house. And if the Continent can't forge an identity without first agreeing on a common foreign policy, then it may never learn its true name. Like any battered family, Europe has learned how to hide behind half-truth and euphemism. It's a crucial survival skill. On Saturday Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Tony Blair - in Berlin for their first meeting since Europe's dramatic split earlier this year over the war in Iraq - tried to present a common front...
...case, the areas of vulnerability (outside the obvious conservative distaste for his big government mentality, his stand on abortion and so on) will be his personal character - there will be elaborate efforts to answer the question, What exactly is wrong with Al Gore? - and the truth or untruth (or half-truth) of things he has said in the past...