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...stranger to controversy herself - she says she's been on a U.S. watch list since 2006 because of her films, which also include the documentary, My Country, My Country, which takes a critical look at the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. But on her way to Berlin last month, she says the government went one step further. Poitras arrived at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York to discover that she'd been put on a no-fly list. Shocked and bewildered, she called her lawyer who "woke up a few people in Washington" and eventually she was allowed...
...Sunday Times and the BBC when Blair came to power, was once friendly with the P.M. but later soured on his political decisions, especially Blair's support of the Bush Administration's plan to invade Iraq. (With some ghoulishly good timing, Blair had to spend six hours last month defending his Iraq record in the Chilcot Inquiry.) The book, published in 2007, was widely seen as Harris's score-settling. (See the best books of the decade...
...offered a tepid appraisal when asked recently if he expected Obama to campaign for him. "I don't know whether he would and I don't know whether we would ask. At this point, it is an open question," Blumenthal told students at Yale University in New Haven. Last month, red-state Republican operatives sounded giddy about the prospect of an Obama visit. "The Democrats can't run away from the position of their party; they can't run away from their President," Chris Devaney, chairman of the Republican Party in Tennessee, told Politico. "I'd welcome President Obama anytime...
...This month, the President also approved the sale of $6 billion worth of arms to Taiwan, which China considers part of its territory. That provoked further anger from Beijing. Three senior Chinese military officers were quoted in an official newspaper suggesting that the government should sell some U.S. Treasury bonds in retaliation...
...toughest places for the volunteers to operate, it seems, is the curling venue. "I find that there's a lot of drunk people at curling," says Sue Andrykew, a mail carrier from Windsor, Ont., who took a month off to volunteer and is crashing on a friend's futon. A few days ago, a woman screamed at Andrykew, demanding that she move some people who were blocking her view of the sheet. As if that's not bad enough, too many smokers are lighting up in nonsmoking areas...