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...Pat Roberts, of nearby Kansas, was getting the same earful from voters hit by the drought there. "I just finished up a 31-county listening tour where I made 50 stops," Roberts says. "The number one item of concern was: We're burning up and we need disaster assistance. But the second item of concern was: Are we going to invade Iraq?" Kansans are about as patriotic and Republican as Nebraskans. And Roberts was struck by who was grabbing his lapel. There were the soccer moms worried about sending their sons and daughters to fight, but also military retirees...
...Crimson’s last meeting with Penn State was a 1-0 road defeat, a game which Pat Farmer—the Lions’ coach at the time—admitted he was lucky...
...time Switzerland's largest bank, UBS, was given a pat on the back for its compliance with Swiss regulations. However, in February of this year, UBS made a startling admission. As part of its ongoing internal control procedures, the bank said, it had stumbled upon a business relationship with Abacha's sons that dated back to 1996. A British citizen resident in London, who was a long-standing and reputable client, introduced to the bank a company in which he and two Nigerian partners held interests. The British citizen, who wasn't further identified, insisted the partners had no political...
...Florida two days before the purported meeting, and they could not uncover any travel or financial records to prove Atta had made a quick flight to Prague. But early this month several Pentagon officials, including Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, met with the FBI's assistant director for counterterrorism, Pat D'Amuro, to quiz the FBI again about the Czech report. Officials from both agencies who attended the meeting deny that Wolfowitz pressured the briefers to confirm that the Prague rendezvous took place. But the FBI says the Pentagon team tried, with success, to persuade the bureau to concede that...
...answers are believable--pat, even--but unsatisfying. Robert, RFK muses, feared that he "caused" his brother's murder by antagonizing the Mob or the Cubans, even that he subconsciously wished for his brother's death. (All this is hashed out in overwrought "debates"--which take place in R.F.K.'s head--between Roache and Martin Donovan as the ghost of J.F.K.) Did Robert want the presidency for himself? For his family? The standard answer, given here, is that, moved by Vietnam and urban unrest, he grew to want it for all of us. But his transformation feels mechanical, dictated...