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...White House favor for the administrator job after Sen. Nelson complained that a previous candidate, retired Air Force General Scott Gration, lacked NASA experience...
...when Pope Benedict XVI reversed the 1988 excommunication of four bishops of an ultra-traditionalist Catholic group called the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), he probably knew it would ignite a firestorm. The church has significant unresolved problems with the society, among them its gross disobedience to the previous Pope. Benedict was determined to try to end a schism with a movement that exhibits a fervent piety he shares and is trying to encourage in Europe, where SSPX is strongest. But almost simultaneous with the Pope's announcement, a Swedish-TV interview surfaced in which SSPX bishop Richard Williamson...
...there is skepticism. Pakistani leaders have passed the hat before, yet little of the $10 billion in U.S. military aid sent to Islamabad since 9/11 has been used to fight the extremists. Previous military operations have ended with peace deals that gave Pakistan's militants larger, safer sanctuaries. Some members of Congress are asking quite why--given all that U.S. aid--the Pakistani army has found it so hard to defeat the militants...
...year on the job, with $640,000 in cash compensation, $81,304 in moving and other expenses, and $53,739 in benefits. It is the first time Faust’s compensation information has been made available; University spokesman John D. Longbrake declined to release her salary in her previous post as dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study...
Nevertheless, Alexeyev tries to find a silver lining to the suppression of his march. "We changed the location of the march at the last minute so that we wouldn't be attacked by anti-gay groups like previous years," he says. "This is the first year that no one was seriously injured in the parade." In gay Russia, that counts for an achievement...