Word: overeers
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"My husband almost killed himself in grief," his wife says. "The day [the Marines] came to tell us Alex was dead, he poured gasoline all over himself and all over the inside of [their] car and lit it on fire. He survived ... physically."
"He would clearly state he had contempt for infidels. He kept talking about the return of the 14th century, saying Islam was going to take over the world." - Lorenzo Lacovara, a former worker at a Philadelphia bar run by Headley's mother (New York Times, Nov. 22, 2009)
On Tuesday, by contrast, when he asked Congress for a second major stimulus effort in a speech at the Brookings Institution in Washington, he arrived ready to rumble. In place of extended arms, Obama accused Republicans of presiding "over the decision-making" that led to the financial crisis and then...
This new Obama, long past his Panglossian dreams of new Beltway comity, used fighting words because, quite frankly, he is trapped in a political tight spot, wedged between sky-high unemployment and lingering public worries over government spending. Almost 10 months after signing the $787 billion stimulus, the largest such...
In a briefing call with reporters before the speech, a senior Administration official said that even though the unspent and returned TARP funds could not be used directly to fund the new stimulus efforts, they still created an environment in which there was "more fiscal room" for further spending. "There...