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...training Iraqi units to fight on their own, there is growing evidence that many Iraqi soldiers are more loyal to religious or ethnic factions than to the central government. Sunni Arabs are worried that the new Iraqi army and the Interior Ministry's security forces are infiltrated by partisan Shi'ite and Kurdish militias who target Sunnis for reprisals--a fear that gained credence this month with the discovery of 173 mostly Sunni detainees in an Interior Ministry building who were malnourished and in some cases showed signs of torture. "If the Iraqi security forces the Americans leave behind increasingly...
...iPod semi-connectivity is a ray of light in a generally partisan and overly protected musical landscape. What's depressing is that much of Microsoft's own protected content doesn't play on the system, either. For nearly a year, Microsoft's Windows Media division has promoted subscription content that you can play on your PC or on a portable player, after paying a fairly low monthly or yearly fee to Napster, RealNetworks or Yahoo! Typically, you can play songs on a PC and even move them to participating non-iPods, such as Dell's Ditty. What's messed...
...holiday but politically on edge as President Bush returns Monday night from Asia to the White House. Still struggling in the polls, Bush has a full week and a Thanksgiving holiday to lower the political temperature before politicians return to the capital. After last week's tumult and partisan drama on Capitol Hill, Bush might be thankful that the lawmakers' November recess has arrived like the clang of the bell mercifully terminating a middle round in a heavyweight slugfest. Instead of irate, uppercutting critics, awaiting him in Washington are a stack of budget bills primped...
Virginia Governor Mark R. Warner called for a more moderate Democratic Party in a speech last night at the Institute of Politics. “We’ve got to be willing to be bi-partisan in order to get things done. We don’t have the luxury [of fighting] in a world that is moving at Internet speed,” he said to a crowded room of Harvard Democrats. The governor, oft-mentioned as a potential presidential candidate for 2008, outlined three main issues he believes the Democrats—and the next president?...
...application was complete. The FDA is supposed to be a nonpartisan agency, and its role is to gauge the safety of drugs based upon scientific research. Its role is not, in any capacity, to judge drugs along party lines. It appears that the decision concerning this drug was partisan, because the decision to keep Plan B off the shelves was made by the highest-ranking members of the FDA before the scientific reviews were complete. In response to the GAO’s allegations, the FDA said that they did indeed base their decision on scientific proof. Dr. Steven Galson...