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...presence in the rarefied world of French politics, Bayrou has emerged as a serious contender for the country's presidency. He has done so in spite of his homespun background. A smallholder's son from the Pyrenees, saddled with a stutter as a kid, he never rounded off his résumé at one of France's prestigious grandes écoles as many politicians do. Yet it's exactly Bayrou's ordinariness, his lack of privilege, that is attracting supporters - and driving the man. "I've always been sensitive to certain looks," he writes in his recent book...
Even close families have favored sons and daughters. Rove has that status with Bush, which may explain why, in the official explanation of what had happened, he emerged the least tainted. A little less firmly, Bush also stood by Gonzales, even as Senator John Sununu (R.-N.H.) joined Democratic calls for his resignation...
...multiple threads, the posters describe their classmates as “fat,” remark on the size of their breasts, or use ethnic slurs. Two targets of other posts did not respond to repeated requests for comment yesterday. The president of gay rights group HLS Lambda, Adam R. Sorkin, said he was disturbed by the homophobic tone of many of the threads after doing a search for the word “faggot.” “I was shocked by the number of posts that used that term in referring to people in a derogatory...
...whether he ordered three Iraqi men killed during a raid last May in the Thar Thar Canal. During the raid, soldiers took four men captive. Shortly before the soldiers were supposed to pull out, three of the detainees were allegedly shot by two soldiers in Girouard's squad, Corey R. Clagett and William B. Hunsaker. One of the three Iraqis who did not die right away was allegedly shot point-blank by another soldier, Juston R. Graber, in what's been described as a mercy killing. Initially, squad members claimed that the detainees attacked Hunsaker and Clagett, and were shot...
...Eugene R. Fidell, president of the National Institute of Military Justice, said the defense will likely be difficult. Still, he said, "no one should rush to judgment on these things. Let due process unfold." Said Fidell: "Every one of these cases is important. It's important for the army. It's important for the war effort. It's important for our allies, and it's important for people around the world who view us in a hostile vein or a disappointed vein." The court-martial is expected to last through Saturday and likely into next week, with a separate sentencing...