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...held hostage for 444 days in the U.S. embassy starting in 1979. Before the relief workers' arrival in their C-5 transport planes, the last U.S. military aircraft to land in Iran was part of the botched 1980 hostage rescue. Both the U.S. and Iranian governments described the current mission as strictly humanitarian, and, indeed, last Friday the Iranians rebuffed a U.S. offer to send a second, higher-powered delegation that would have included Senator Elizabeth Dole and an unnamed Bush family member. But the goodwill on the ground was unmistakable. Mohammad Reza Tammasi, the manager of Bam's huge...
Despite those problems, Adler and Vinnakota remain committed to their mission and have set their sights on an even more ambitious dream: developing a network of public boarding schools around the country. "Our goal is to demonstrate that not only is there a need but there is a solution that works," Vinnakota says. As for the D.C. school, SEED'S founders say its true success will be measured by the number of students who go on to college and do well. But an earlier indication of what it has achieved may be found in the changing attitudes of its students...
...passed on immediately to military-intelligence people so we can track down and kill the very people you are writing about? Do you really believe that "the story" is more important than the lives of the U.S. troops and the overall success of the coalition's mission in Iraq? LEE SELF St. Petersburg...
...second most aggressive populist pitch among the Democrats--in some ways, a pitch more clever than Dean's. Kerry isn't angry so much as disdainful; the saliva is carefully rationed. He mocks the President's more unfortunate moments, like "Bring 'em on." He does his best work with "Mission accomplished." "The Bush Administration will be measured by those words," he told a crowd in Portsmouth, N.H. "But whose missions have been accomplished?" He proceeded to list the familiar miscreants who have been rewarded--the lobbyists who wrote the energy bill, the drug companies, the wealthy recipients of the Bush...
Last week, the first color photos of Mars, courtesy of the Spirit craft, caused great excitement among the scientific community and the public at large. The larger purpose of the mission is to search for signs of water on Mars, which could mean the planet supported life at one point. President Bush will announce later this week a plan to resume missions to the Moon and send humans to Mars within 20 years, with international help in this goal. Such a plan is likely to be tremendously expensive, and some argue that manned space missions are unnecessary with the level...