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...Nashville, Tennessee, I asked the Sudanese taxi driver while passing the football stadium how the Titans did that season. He said: “You know, you ask me hard question—it is because I only moved here last year.” Where was he before? Seattle, he said, fishing. Three month journeys, 25 thousand a trip. “But I’m from Sudan. Do you know where that is?” he asked...
...fact, it’s hard to find an organization that hasn’t publicly condemned “Jersey Shore.” Among the dissenting ranks are parents, anti-domestic violence activists, and actual residents of the Jersey Shore. Even dermatologists have criticized the show, warning against the excessive tanning it promotes...
...With a young team…my kids are trying to make some perfect plays where we just have to make the hard-fought play,” BC coach Katie King said. “We had a three-on-one at one point, and we tried to tic-tac-toe it instead of just getting to the net and finding the rebound...
...push back against those numbers. "The Administration needs to get out and make their case on this," says a top Democratic Senate aide. "They don't have a good answer right now. They have to find another venue [for the KSM trial], and until then it's hard to push back." Senate majority leader Harry Reid said on Tuesday that "the Bush Administration prosecuted hundreds of these terrorists [in civilian courts, and] 340 of them are in prison right now." He said the President would have to decide "whether [the KSM trial] can be done safely in other parts...
Gates' career has not been without controversy. He made his name as a Cold War hawk, an intelligence analyst who saw the Soviet Union as an implacable and evil adversary. During the Reagan Administration, he sided with hard-liners who got the Soviets wrong. He failed to recognize that Mikhail Gorbachev was a true reformer. He didn't believe that Soviet power was collapsing. "He said the Soviets would never leave Afghanistan. They did. He said [former Afghan President] Najibullah would never survive the Soviet departure. He was totally wrong. Najibullah survived three or four years," recalls Mort Abramowitz...