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...Menteng elementary school where Obama studied. Annisa Luthpia, 10, practicing a xylophone tune she hopes to perform for the U.S. President, giggles when asked what religion Obama is. She doesn't know--and doesn't care. Says the Muslim girl Annisa of the Christian American President: "He seems like a very nice man." Obama's challenge is to persuade Asians that he's more than just that...
...stay-at-home mom when I learned that people in default can include borrowers like my husband, who had never missed a payment but whose bank decided not to renew his company's line of credit. This was in 2006, when lenders were starting to rein in aggressive loans made to small businesses. In the case of my husband, a wholesale supplier whose revenues were declining, the credit line that started at $250,000--and steadily increased for six years--matured, was briefly extended and then was cut at the bank's discretion. The bank FedExed my husband...
...with his judgments." Holder and his wife were invited to the private dinner at the chic organic restaurant near Dupont Circle where Obama feted his wife Michelle on her birthday early this year. "It's interesting," Holder says, sitting in his conference room in the Justice Department. "It's like you have this bifurcated relationship - the professional, where there is this distance, and the personal, where we let our guards down...
...supporters continue to argue that military tribunals are slow and unreliable and send a repressive signal about American values overseas. They also doubt that Graham can deliver the votes needed to close Gitmo even if the talks are successful. Still, it is increasingly clear that everyone would like to find a way out of the stalemate. One compromise might involve trying KSM and other 9/11 conspirators in a tribunal, or even a new civilian terrorism court with special rules, while permitting other alleged terrorists to be tried, as originally planned, in the existing federal system. Holder doesn't have...
...Laden rather than capture and interrogate him. But Holder says he's adhering to principles he adopted over the years as an unforgiving criminal prosecutor. And it's Holder's experience in the law-enforcement system that makes him such a strong believer in its ability to put terrorists like KSM away forever. "We should have great faith in the resilience of our systems, the resilience of our people, the toughness that has always separated Americans from other peoples in this world, and that's what's made this country great," he says...