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...million effort to provide college scholarships to the spouses and children of those who had been killed or disabled in the attack. It was a prelude to an even more unexpected Odd Couple act: An unlikely partnership with George Herbert Walker Bush that raised $1 billion for tsunami relief and another $115 million in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina...
...blood being spilled and the destruction happening in Israel, Lebanon and Iraq. Erik Stottrup Waupaca, Wisconsin, U.S. The delay in diplomatic engagement, the failure to press for an immediate cease-fire, the refusal to condemn Israel for heinous attacks on civilians and disruption of humanitarian relief: such tactics further reveal the Bush Administration's Middle East policy for the ethically bankrupt disaster it has always been. Charles Bergman Omaha, Nebraska, U.S. The U.S. has shown that it is not serious about winning the war against terrorism. By refusing to act in the face of Israel's excessive use of military...
With outgoing prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi due to step down next month, Japan's neighbors are breathing a sigh of relief and focusing their attention on his likely successor, Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe. Koizumi's visits to the controversial Yasukuni shrine?the latest on Aug. 15?have long outraged China and South Korea, who view them as deliberate celebrations of Japanese militarism. But Beijing and Seoul have signaled their willingness to give Abe a chance to repair ties?if he forgoes Yasukuni...
...Iraqi commanders have reverted to the tactics they have periodically employed - with little effect - against Sunni insurgents and terrorists in Baghdad over the past three years: cordoning entire neighborhoods, intensive patrolling, house-to-house searches, surprise raids. But at best, these measures have brought only temporary relief. Militias and insurgents know to disappear when the U.S. military arrives. Past experience shows that once the soldiers move on, the violence returns. After three days of extended curfews and intensive patrolling in Amariyah, a mainly Sunni neighborhood that was controlled by jihadi groups, the U.S. last week declared the area safe...
...total tax bill for the Angelides agenda will be more than three times that and called his tax-cut plan a disguise. Just as Angelides was finishing his speech, Schwarzenegger held a press event with tax-cut advocates, reiterating his pledge not to raise taxes and touting his tax-relief record. "I will not raise taxes on the people of California in my second term - period," he said."Thanks to the car-tax repeal and workers' compensation reform, we put more than $12 billion back into the economy so that people and businesses can save, invest and build...