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...death toll in Iraq passed 2,000; Katrina exposed the weakness of the Administration's bench players; a Supreme Court nominee fell; a White House aide resigned under indictment. Even Karl Rove's aura of imperturbability began to melt, not only because he is under investigation in the CIA-leak case but also--and more gravely for the G.O.P.--because for once he seemed unable to find a winning issue for his boss. If 2006 looks anything like 2005, George W. Bush will not only hasten his own lame-duck irrelevance; he will leave his party vulnerable in November...
...about water. Indeed, neither the company nor government officials mentioned the facility's tanks of benzene, nitrobenzene and a related chemical called aniline, located near the banks of the Songhua River. The blast ruptured the tanks, dumping 100 tons of those chemicals into the river. "If there was a leak of the tanks," says an executive of a foreign chemical company who was briefed by officials in Beijing on the events at Jilin, "it would be an emergency. But this was a flood...
...father and son presidents. He also understood the Reagan family dynamic better than anyone. And he was always endlessly supportive to those of us who followed him, offering advice and counsel and encouragement. When I faced a possible prison sentence last summer for not testifying in the CIA leak case- I eventually did talk to the Fitzgerald grand jury-I had some close friends write letters to the judge, asking for mercy. The first person I thought of to testify for my character was the most respected man I knew, Hugh Sidey...
...outlast U.S. troop presence. Instead, this bill is really about redefining the rhetorical playing field. It is about taking the difficult first step sooner than in the past. Previous criticism of U.S. military actions abroad have come only after major gaffes or losses of lives. It took the leak of the bombing of Cambodia combined with over 33,000 U.S. dead to spur then-President Richard Nixon to announce the withdrawal of the first 25,000 U.S. troops from Vietnam in June of 1969. In Lebanon and Somalia, President Ronald Reagan and President Bill Clinton, respectively, did not begin withdrawals...
...investigation and all Washington was consumed by a debate over spies and secrets and sources. Woodward kept what he knew secret even from Post executive editor Leonard Downie Jr. But as the case heated up this fall and Woodward joined in the reporting, "I learned something more" about the leak, he told TIME, which prompted him to finally tell Downie of his 2003 conversation...