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...provoke retaliation against U.S. interests in Iraq and elsewhere. Iran is threatening to retaliate if it is even referred to the Security Council, let alone made the target of sanctions. Tehran says referral will prompt it to end all voluntary cooperation with the IAEA. And oil prices have already risen on fears that Iran will retaliate by reducing its exports...
...exploded," Coretta recalled. Later in the book she wrote, "Martin was now a hero to America's black people. Shortly after the [Montgomery bus boycott], TIME magazine ran a cover story on Martin, calling him 'the scholarly Negro Baptist minister who in little more than a year has risen from nowhere to become one of the nation's remarkable leaders...
...federal debt has risen from $5.7 trillion when Bush took office to more than $8 trillion today. According to the U.S. Comptroller General, there is already some $40 trillion in unfunded liabilities--promised payments that current revenue streams won't be able to cover--in the Medicare and Social Security systems. Of that, $8 trillion comes from Bush's prescription-drug plan alone--a figure that is equal to all the national debt that has been accumulating since the time of George Washington...
...terrorist-interrogation prisons and the disclosure in the New York Times last month that the President authorized the National Security Agency (NSA) to eavesdrop on the phone calls of some Americans without a warrant. The latter report was also in State of War, a book by Times reporter James Risen, who drew scathing condemnation from CIA spokeswoman Jennifer Millerwise Dyck last week. She charged that Risen "demonstrates an unfathomable and sad disregard for U.S. national security and those who take life-threatening risks to ensure...
When Jesus died, so the Gospels say, they shut him up in a cave. He descended into hell. On the third day, his disciples found the stone to his tomb rolled away. He had risen, defeated death, stepped from the darkness into the light...