Word: quiets
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...appearing via video at an event in Louisville where religious leaders argued for approving Bush's judicial nominees, pushing the "nuclear option" to prevent Democrats from filibustering Bush's judicial nominees and speaking on the Senate floor about Terry Schiavo's medical condition. Other potential candidates are making more quiet moves. Virginia Senator George Allen has emerged as leading voice for conservatives unhappy with the McCain-lead compromise that ended the judicial filibuster debate and has called on Frist to bring up more controversial nominees to force a vote. Last month, Allen spoke at the graduation at Regents University...
...Angeles is in terrible shape--again. The city's street gangs, which had been relatively quiet since the crack-cocaine epidemic of the late '80s and early '90s burned itself out, are back with a vengeance. After falling steadily from 1996 to '99, gang murders in the city increased 143% last year; 331 people died because of gang violence, in contrast to 136 in 1999. The violence got worse during the first half of this year, with a 23% increase in murders. Even as gang-related property crimes decrease--robbery is down 8.8%, carjacking is down 28%--other violent crimes...
...Swiss Open Up After the E.U. constitution was rejected by the French and Dutch, and another bitter scrap broke out over the E.U. budget, Brussels won a quiet sign of support last week from an unlikely corner. In a referendum, 55% of Swiss voters approved joining the E.U.-run Schengen area, which lifts internal border checks. Integration doesn't come easy to the Swiss. Voters declined membership of the European Economic Area, a staging post to full E.U. membership, in 1992; a poll in 2001 shelved the possibility of membership talks even though around two-thirds of the country...
Despite the information gaps, the log offers a rare glimpse into the darker reaches of intelligence gathering, in which teams that specialize in extracting information by almost any means match wits and wills with men who are trained to keep quiet at almost any cost. It spans 50 days in the winter of 2002-03, from November to early January, a critical period at Gitmo, during which 16 additional interrogation techniques were approved by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for use on a select few detainees, including al-Qahtani...
...QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT...