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...That a stump speech could have such power would seem unlikely in an age when the lingua franca of politics is scripted in 30-sec. commercials by media consultants and pollsters. But the resonance came from Edwards' own life story as the son of a millworker who grew up to be a spectacularly successful trial lawyer and then a U.S. Senator. "I beat 'em, and I beat 'em again, and then I beat 'em again," Edwards would declare. "How many times has someone said to you that you can't do something? That you're not quite prepared for this...
...SEC. 3. ADDITIONAL AUTHORIZATION OF ACQUISITIONS OF COMMUNICATIONS OF NON-UNITED STATES PERSONS LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WHO MAY BE COMMUNICATING WITH PERSONS INSIDE THE UNITED STATES. Section 105B of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.) is amended to read as follows...
...SEC. 105B. (a) IN GENERAL. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the Director of National Intelligence and the Attorney General may jointly apply to a judge of the court established under section 103(a) for an ex parte order, or the extension of an order, authorizing for a period of up to one year the acquisition of communications of *persons* that are reasonably believed to be located outside the United States and not United States persons for the purpose of collecting foreign intelligence information (as defined in paragraph (1) or (2)(A) of section 101(e)) by targeting those...
That leaves the states to keep pushing Washington. On the same day that the Midwest deal was signed, the green group Environmental Defense announced that it would begin airing a 30-sec. ad featuring three Western governors - Republican Govs. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jon Huntsman Jr. of California and Utah, and Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer of Montana - calling on Congress to do something. The message is clear: America's state and local governments have done as much as they can on climate change. "In state after state, we're taking action," the governors say in the $3 million ads, which began...
...player tournament.“All the matches were grinds,” Clayton said. “It was impossible to win anything from the baseline.” Clayton added that the strong performance against a tournament field packed full of players from powerful SEC schools showed “that we can compete at a national level.”Kumar, despite suffering from a fever, won a three-setter, 7-6(10), 3-6, 6-1, that included a marathon first-set tiebreaker in which he saved a number of set points. He won his next...