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...close to his old agency to reform it, for now they don't plan to hold up his appointment. Instead, they say they'll use Goss's confirmation hearing in early September to air complaints about CIA failures--and possibly to grill Goss on his recent proposal to lift the ban on the agency operating inside the U.S. A representative said Goss merely meant to provoke debate...
Harvard will appear on television two more times this fall; its contest against Lafayette will be shown on the Empire Sports Network and “The Game” can be seen locally on the WB network....The Yale Bowl will be getting a face-lift, as renovations began over the summer...
Bullets vs. Ballots AFGHANISTAN The last bunch arrives late in the afternoon, a group of women who have come to Kabul's Eid Mosque to register to vote in Afghanistan's first presidential election, on Oct. 9. One by one they lift their burqas to be photographed, revealing faces young and old. The turnout is encouraging - 90% of an estimated 10 million eligible voters have so far registered. And the very fact that elections can take place in this war-ravaged country is a good sign. But a growing split between the country's restive warlords and the administration...
...managed to capture, in a brief speech, the promise of progressive politics and the magic of America. The man is impossible to caricature: he speaks just as strongly about God’s gifts and the limits of government as he does about America’s responsibility to lift workers out of poverty. Obama is an optimist despite setbacks, an intellectual with a common touch and a professional politician who can truly inspire...
...Norte. It's ugly work (you may want to avert your eyes while she is endlessly swallowing the drugs)--and dangerous too. If a packet breaks, the heroin will kill the carrier. But, of course, the money is great--thousands of dollars for a week's unpleasantness, enough to lift Maria's fractious family out of poverty and pay for the birth of the baby she is carrying...