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...reporters in Las Vegas, doubtlessly dashed the hopes of many in the party who considered Ensign an emerging national leader. The 51-year-old even fanned the flames of presidential speculation earlier this month with a trip to the key presidential-primary state of Iowa. Beyond embarrassing the second-term Senator, the revelation opened him to charges of hypocrisy: he had previously called on both President Bill Clinton and former Idaho Senator Larry Craig to resign after their own sex scandals. (See the top 10 political sex scandals...
...global downturn, the problems when Heathrow's Terminal 5 opened last year? Because of that ambiguity, "staff and observers won't necessarily think, This is all to do with external forces, so we've all got to pull together here," Clifton says. Seems like you can ask for that second pillow, after...
...after the city's worst flooding disaster. "We've become stronger - more of a family," says Toni Grimm, the home's owner, talking about her neighborhood, Czech Village, a historic ethnic area bordering the now tranquil Cedar River. Last June, the river swamped 10 square miles of Iowa's second largest city (metro-area pop. 255,000). There are signs of life in the downtown business district, with factories and shops reopened. But whole swaths of neighborhoods along the river remain eerily lifeless, with one abandoned, waterlogged shell of a house after another, some spray-painted with warnings and pleas...
...players took off the bands for the second half of the game. Some reports suggested that the Iranian Football Federation ordered their removal...
...said. But asked if he credited Britain with helping to establish the fledgling democracy that allows this diversity, he clammed up. "If I'm frank with you, I will be punished by my commander," he said. "If I answer from my heart, I will lose my job." A second policeman, listening to the conversation, had fewer reservations. "America and Britain didn't come here to help the Iraqis," he interjected. "Anything you did, you did for your own benefit." With cynicism about the motivations for the war widespread in Iraq and back in Britain, any inquiry, however flawed, is surely...