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Free to members of the military and their relatives, Warrior Mind Training classes are offered at 11 U.S. military installations and veterans centers across the country; an online option opened up this spring. At Naval Amphibious Base Coronado in California, for example, Warrior Mind instructors prep elite Navy SEALS candidates for Hell Week, when potential newbies are vetted in a 5 ½-day sleepless trial of physical and mental endurance. (See pictures of the U.S. troops in Iraq...
Pollak, who graduated from Harvard Law School this past year, decided Tuesday that he would be challenging Jan Schakowsky to represent the 9th district of Illinois. In an interview with FlyBy yesterday, Pollak said he had been considering politics as a career option even before the altercation, but the responses he received afterward inflamed a sense of urgency...
Jenkins, Representative Lynn • uninsured mother demanding an affordable public option is laughed...
...Hawkeye-Stubborn But if Grassley has been clear about what he doesn't want to see in a bill, Democrats have had a harder time getting a fix on what he might accept. Take his often repeated criticism of the public option: Obama expected it to come up during a private meeting with Grassley last spring and was prepared to explore a compromise, according to a source who is familiar with what happened. Instead, Grassley failed to even mention it, leaving it to Obama to bring up the matter - and his top aides to wonder what Grassley's real agenda...
...joint session of Congress on Sept. 9. Rather than leaving the legislative sausagemaking up to Congress, allies say, Obama will have to become far more specific about what he wants to see in a bill. He must spell out, for instance, precisely what he means by a public option, an issue that has grown to outsize proportion as an ideological flash point. The President may also need to declare whether he would be willing to sign a bill without...