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...didn't reflect my opinion." Rumsfeld would go no further, pleading that the sound on the videotapes of Boykin's incendiary remarks was too scratchy to be understood. In his dustup with Warner, Rumsfeld went so far as to say it was Boykin who requested a Pentagon probe--perhaps so evangelicals wouldn't blame the Bush team for going after one of their own. Still, Boykin's days are numbered. "His job effectiveness is over," said retired Army General Barry McCaffrey...
...They are a cultural memory, a piece of text, art, that moves and evolves from one place to another.” But anyone who thinks of Sen as playing into feminine Indian stereotypes should be wary—her focus on such texts as recipes serves not to probe the mundane; rather, this kind of inquiry into the experience of individuals (a person, a text) is rich and informative in a way that certain traditional research lacks. She also brings a vital realism to her scholarship, saying wryly that she always remembers being told that “there...
...Marine spokesman said the decision to reassign the officers was taken independently of an ongoing investigation by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service criminal probe. The NCIS, which must determine whether the Marines broke the rules of military engagement in Haditha, is expected to submit its report...
Mohammed Elbaradei , the U.N.'S point man on nuclear proliferation, plans to jet to Iran this week to urge its government to cooperate with a U.N. probe into its nuclear program. The Security Council, which relied in part on information the U.S. extracted from a single laptop computer that purportedly belonged to an Iranian engineer, gave Iran until April 28 to comply with the investigation. But a senior Bush Administration official tells TIME that there remain "substantial uncertainties" about the state of Tehran's nuclear program. "Iran is a very hard target," he concedes. "The truth is, if a country...
...agent and a video camera. They were there to record what Burkle--who had chafed at uncomplimentary and, he thought, untrue items about him in the column--believed was a $220,000 shakedown for kid-glove coverage. The FBI believed it too: the agency has launched a probe into extortion allegations...