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Jimmy McCain's deployment will affect more than his family. His father is a leading contender for the White House in 2008. If Jimmy deploys to combat, it appears that McCain will join Franklin Roosevelt to become one of the very few American presidential candidates to have had a son at war. And even the prospect of Jimmy's service will shade the race. Iraq is the most important strategic and political issue facing the U.S. Many Democrats are calling for troop withdrawal to begin immediately, and the Bush Administration is struggling to reduce troop strength...
...Jimmy's decision. "I know that he's aware of his family's service background," he says. "But I think the main motivator was, he had friends who were in the Marine Corps, and he'd known Marines, and he'd read about them, and he just wanted to join...
...Still, Rice defended the Bush administration?s refusal to join other world leders in demanding that Israel agree to an immediate ceasefire. She pointed out that Sunday?s bombing was at the same village where? Israel hit a U.N. outpost in 1996, killing 106 people who had taken refuge there. (A U.N. investigation of that incident concluded that it was ?unlikely? that the shelling was a mistake - a judgment Israel has never accepted.) This tragedy, she said, underscored the need for a ?sustainable? ceasefire...
...stock market, since 2000. Glauber, who has served on the NASD Board of Governors since 1996, announced that he would move up his retirement date from the end of the calendar year at a NASD board meeting on July 20. “Leaving now will allow me to join the Board of Directors of Freddie Mac, which I anticipate doing in September, consider a couple of other corporate board opportunities, and return to Harvard a bit sooner,” he said in an NASD press release. Mary Schapiro, the president of NASD’s regulatory policy...
...main reason to join [the DAR] is to honor your ancestors,” she said. “They have every right to be honored like everyone else...