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...security clearance to disclose psychiatric counseling. Currently applicants are asked whether they've undergone therapy within the last seven years. The most recent data showed less than 1% of some 800,000 people investigated in 2006 were denied solely due to their mental health profiles, according to the Associated Press. Still, the new change seeks to ease the stigma throughout the military regarding mental health problems...
...they should be denounced. And that's what I'm doing very clearly and unequivocally here today.' BARACK OBAMA, Democratic presidential hopeful, repudiating the comments of his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, after Wright repeated his controversial statements on racism and 9/11 during a speech at the National Press Club...
...Tumulty has joined the rest of the Washington press crowd in condemning Obama for comments that the rest of America, outside the Beltway, knows to be essentially truthful. Why else would Obama's poll numbers have remained strong despite the fury and umbrage of those in Washington most sheltered from what the rest of the country is going through? Maybe lapel flag pins are the only story they've come to understand. Jay H. Abrams, Boca Raton...
...political crisis in Zimbabwe spirals into bloodshed and chaos, its ruler, Robert Mugabe, seems to have endless tricks up his sleeve. Already he has stalled an election after probably losing the first round, used the state-controlled press to divert attention to the chronic issue of land control, and apparently had thugs beat opposition supporters. But one of his strategies seems likely to fail. In mid-April, South Africa's Transport Workers Union refused to unload a shipment of Chinese arms destined for Zimbabwe...
Tumulty has joined the rest of the Washington press crowd in condemning Obama for comments that the rest of America, outside the Beltway, knows to be essentially truthful. Why else would Obama's poll numbers have remained strong despite the fury and umbrage of those in Washington most sheltered from what the rest of the country is going through? Maybe lapel flag pins are the only story they've come to understand. Jay H. Abrams, BOCA RATON...