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...examining a smear campaign allegedly overseen by Villepin in 2004. The President and his backers maintain that those behind the smear, which linked Sarkozy to illegal kickbacks from arms sales, not only set out to derail his presidential bid but continued to use evidence of wrongdoing even when they knew that it was fraudulent. Villepin and his supporters deny any such campaign, and say Sarkozy is using the trial - and his presidential power to influence it - to pursue a personal vendetta. (See pictures of Nicolas Sarkozy...
...read with interest Mike Pandey's claim that "I grew up right next to the Nairobi National Park, where elephants would raid my mother's kitchen garden and lions' calls would wake us at night." In those years I knew the wardens, and I produced official game-mapping for Kenya. There had not been elephant near the Nairobi Park area for many years; the nearest population was some 60 miles away down the Mombasa road. One night a park warden, driving from the Mombasa direction, came across some fresh elephant dung. He took some and left it on a park...
...idea survived the committee with unified Democratic support and a veneer of bipartisanship. It's a major step--but far from the final one. "My vote today is my vote today," Snowe said. "It doesn't forecast" what she might do down the road. In politics, as LBJ knew, the power of yes is meaningless unless twinned with the menace...
When I first met Ben Ali, neither one of us knew we were going to become famous. It was 1958, and he had just opened Ben's Chili Bowl in Washington, where he sold hot dogs, burgers and half-smokes. I didn't know what he put in those sausages, but I knew they were good. Back then there were quite a few black-owned restaurants, but Ben, who died Oct. 7 at 82, knew how to make his customers feel comfortable. During the riots in 1968, there were only two places in Washington that didn't get touched...
...This is the second year in a row that we won the freshman eight,” lightweight captain Martin Eiermann said. “We knew from practice that they have a very fast boat. It’s a pretty motivated bunch...