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...Biden led the Judiciary committee through the contentious confirmation hearings for Judge Robert Bork, and spent much time locking horns with Jesse Helms on the Foreign Relations committee. His prescriptions for U.S. foreign policy have been sometimes controversial - he supports dividing Iraq into three autonomous regions, for example. But he is accepted as an expert and respected on both sides of the aisle...
Beyond the verbal gaffes during both of his presidential campaigns, Biden stunned his supporters, and delighted his opponents, during the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of John Robert and Sam Alito, President Bush's conservative nominees for the high court. In preparing for the public sessions, Biden's advisers warned him repeatedly not to let his verbose ways dominate the proceedings. Be crisp and clear and concise, they told him over and over during practice sessions. And yet when the lights and cameras were on, Biden was at his very worst - long-winded, self-involved, and off message...
Georgene B. Herschbach, formerly the associate dean of academic programs, has been appointed dean of administration within the College, a mirror of the executive dean position currently occupied on an interim basis by Robert L. Scalise...
...leaving Iraq (and in what numbers), the tentative agreement opens the door for strengthening the American military presence in Afghanistan, where both parties agree it is desperately needed. Tens of thousands of U.S. troops will leave Iraq next year if present trends continue, Pentagon officials say. Defense Secretary Robert Gates may soon decide to divert a pair of 4,000-strong combat brigades - now slated to head to Iraq next spring - to Afghanistan instead...
...faith; Obama attended a Muslim school in Indonesia for a time as a boy because that's where he lived - Indonesia is a Muslim country. He believed in no religion until he moved to Chicago as a grown man and was baptized Christian by Wright. As campaign spokesman Robert Gibbs puts it, "His Christian pastor and this Muslim thing - how can he have problems with both at the same time? Pick...