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...Does it rank up there with chopping someone's head off on television? It doesn't." DONALD RUMSFELD, Secretary of Defense, in response to questions regarding U.S. mistreatment of inmates at military prisons...
...want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat," he said in an interview with TIME last week. "I accept that when an overwhelming majority of citizens says something, they are right." Zapatero calls this "citizen's socialism;" the opposition calls it rank populism. Either way it's a far cry from the stubborn conservatism of José María Aznar, the man he replaced five months ago. Aznar brought Spain into the U.S.-led Iraq coalition against the will of his people, and voters ousted his Popular Party (PP) three days after the March...
...premise that incoming student-athletes with low AIs are more likely to underachieve than their classmates. He points out that the AI has serious inherent flaws, as it limits its judgment of the competency of a student to SAT I and SAT II test scores as well as class rank or grade point average. Through several anecdotal examples—the primary form of evidence that Lincoln relies on in the work—he shows that AI is a poor indicator of one’s expected performance in college...
When the former President read about one New York City policeman who was knocked down and kicked by protesters, he got a call through to the man, Detective William Sample, who was scheduled to be promoted. Bush thanked him for his courage, congratulated him on his new rank and was delighted when the fellow said matter-of-factly, "I'll be down at my desk tomorrow a proud sergeant...
...Hero's rank by this measure for a foreign-language film, behind Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ...