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...home early. He was due to undergo a heart catheterization the next morning?ordinarily a routine procedure but hardly an appealing prospect for a 77-year-old man recovering from a stroke suffered just a few weeks before. Sharon was driven 56 miles south to his family home, Sycamore Ranch, in the western Negev desert. Friends who talked to him reported that he was in low spirits. At about 9 p.m. he spoke by phone with Israel's Chief of the General Staff, Lieutenant-General Dan Halutz. They discussed how to respond to Palestinians' firing of Qassam rockets into Israel...
...medical experts second-guessed Sharon's doctors after his hospitalization last week?Did doctors err in prescribing blood thinners after the December stroke? Should he have spent Wednesday night in Jerusalem rather than at the ranch??the world grappled with the prospect of life after Sharon. His departure from the political stage has sucked the air out of the peace process for the immediate future. No one, left or right, expects a quick follow-up to the Gaza disengagement or an early return to the negotiating table. Sharon's 60 years of fighting on Israel's front lines gave...
...Iraq. When his opponents seized coalition chief weapons inspector Charles Duelfer’s final report as conclusive evidence that the justification for the war had been a farce, the President did not speak up to set the record straight. When Cindy Sheehan haunted the gates of his Crawford ranch and precipitated a flood of anti-war sentiment, the President remained silent. Amidst ever-accumulating incidents of roadside bombs killing American troops and the resulting public discontent with his administration’s war policy, the President responded only by regurgitating stale party lines during press conferences and minor speeches...
...President, who heads out Wednesday for 10 nights at Camp David and the Crawford ranch, may have been smiling, but he wasn't kidding. Ever since taking office, Bush and Vice President Cheney have pushed to reclaim executive prerogative, and the 9/11 attacks gave them a huge opportunity to do so. But Bush has found himself on the defensive over the report in Friday's New York Times that since 2002, he has secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on callers inside the United States who are suspected of terrorist activity, without first obtaining the court-approved warrants...
...ranchers in Montana say they are in favor of the way the President handles dry brush and scrub on the Crawford ranch...