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...President is standing face to face with NBC's Matt Lauer by the immaculate oak desk in the Oval Office, jabbing emphatically toward the Today anchorman's chest and insisting, "My job is to protect this country, Matt. And it gets second-guessed all the time by people who don't live in the United States." Lauer has interviewed Bush several times, and they have a convivial relationship, bonding about golf and bikes during breaks in the taping. But at the moment, Lauer is pressing the President on the legality of the CIA's secret detention program for accused terrorists...
...acquisition, "there was a real entrepreneurial feel again." There were other benefits too: Lenovo got the rights to use the IBM brand name for five years and snatched the premier Think family of computers. ThinkPad notebooks boast some of the best technology in the business, such as sensors that protect the hard drive if the notebook is dropped...
...still trying to get his head around” transgenderism itself. Still, they agreed that extending public school hours in Massachusetts would allow more time to teach students about tolerance for all people, including transgender individuals, and that hate crime legislation should be extended to explicitly protect transgender crime victims...
...Maybe. But just how much danger is the White House really in? It is rare for political leaders to be prosecuted for genuine attempts to protect the public, and few question the motives behind the extreme interrogation methods, even if they strongly disagree with them. More to the point, Graham, Warner and McCain have larded their bill with protections from prosecution for anything but "grave breaches" of the conventions, which they believe should be adequate to protect the White House...
...endorsements agent who works on these kinds of deals, which are apparently so touchy that she?or he?requested anonymity. Let me make it clear that if the feds threaten me with jail to give up her or his name, they will not have to ask twice. Meanwhile, to protect her identity, I will call her Jamie, since that will give absolutely nothing away because all agents are named Jamie...