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...With reporting by Pat Dawson / Billings, Mont...
...specific," Gates said of asking General David McKiernan, the outgoing commander, to step down just 11 months into a two-year post. "The focus here is simply on getting fresh thinking, fresh eyes on the problem." But McChrystal's role in the friendly-fire death of former NFL star Pat Tillman - as well as prisoner abuses allegedly committed on his watch at Baghdad's Camp Nama - mean his Senate confirmation might not go as smoothly (or swiftly) as Gates hopes. (Read Joe Klein's take on McKiernan's Afghan exit...
Robertson, Pat •prediction is seriously made by - "You mark my words" - that legalization of gay marriage will lead to legalization of "all the things that we consider to be abhorrent," including bestiality, child molestation and pedophilia...
While Harvard can now pat itself on the back for being the only school in the nation with 41 intercollegiate teams, any celebration should be short-lived...
...Potential adoptees often greet visitors as they arrive, which is magical. This is no arm's-length orangutan encounter, with the shadows of great apes ambling through trees glimpsed through a long camera lens. At Camp Leakey, you can pat, hug and hold hands with the animals. Even getting to the camp is an enchantment: you putter up river for hours on a local kelotok boat, and weave through rain forest. "We need to have more tourists visit in order to provide a livelihood for people," says Ferry Candra, a national-park guide. "Without them, locals will just go back...