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...Illinois Democrat rode into town with a halo and has worked hard ever since to prove he's a mere mortal. Obama, 44, has focused on important but low-profile issues, such as making sure the U.S. is prepared for an outbreak of avian flu and securing nuclear-weapon stockpiles in the former Soviet Union. He has reached so often across the aisle on, say, controlling Katrina spending, that some Democrats complain he won't be their firebrand...
...missed opportunities, failed to define a coherent message, staked its reputation on trivial issues and repeatedly imploded amid avoidable public embarrassments. Seiji Maehara, 43, whom Ozawa now succeeds, was the most recent casualty. He committed political seppuku when a scandalous e-mail introduced by a DPJ member purporting to prove an LDP member's corruption turned out to be fake...
...prisoners. The generals also argue that Rumsfeld insisted on too small a force for the invasion, abandoning the doctrine championed by former Secretary of State and four-star general Colin Powell in 1991 after the Gulf War to attack rarely and then only with overwhelming force. Rumsfeld wanted to prove the Powell Doctrine obsolete. Instead, he has probably guaranteed that it will be followed for years...
...Iraq? It's good. It's solid. And I think ... what we've tried to improve since the WMD fiasco is building the safeguards. You have to build in different ways of double checking. You've got a team out there that takes the alternative hypothesis and tries to prove it with the same set of facts...
...game and staying in a good zone consistently.”Watkins has surrendered just one run in her last 19 innings, dating back to an April 10 shutout of Columbia.After the teams held each other silent for the first few innings, senior Rachel Murray drove in what would prove to be the winning run in the sixth inning, clubbing a homer to put her team on top 1-0. Sophomore Danielle Kerper provided some insurance in the seventh with an RBI single.YALE 7, HARVARD 4Harvard kicked off its Sunday doubleheader with Yale on a promising note, scoring...