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...country; ending a year of self-imposed exile in France to avoid imprisonment on charges of defaming the government; in Phnom Penh. Rainsy, who fled Cambodia last February after being stripped of his parliamentary immunity, was sentenced in absentia to 18 months in prison for linking Prime Minister Hun Sen to a fatal grenade attack at an opposition rally in 1997. Last week Rainsy received a pardon from King Norodom Sihamoni after issuing a statement expressing regret and pledging to temper his criticism of the country's leaders in the future...
Only a few years ago, similar political posturing marred the funeral of liberal Minnesota Sen. Paul Wellstone. When both Democrats and Republicans converged to honor him, disgraceful partisan rhetoric ensued. Minnesotans had wanted an opportunity to honor a leader, not the chance to watch a bevy of political blow-hards spout out contradictory talking points. Of course, regrettable as this was, at least Wellstone, who had defined himself by his liberalism, was irrevocably tied in many people’s minds to partisan politics. Mrs. King, on the other hand, should serve as a nonpartisan example of the power...
...Senate Whitewater Committee that investigated a failed real estate deal involving the Clintons. Before becoming secretary of homeland security, Chertoff was appointed assistant attorney general for the criminal division and subsequently to an appellate judgeship in Philadelphia. The lone dissenting vote in his judicial confirmation was cast by Sen. Hillary R. Clinton, D-N.Y. —Staff writer Paras D. Bhayani can be reached pbhayani@fas.harvard.edu...
...Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV ’58-’61, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and one of the few lawmakers who at the time questioned the legality of the program, wrote a handwritten letter to the vice president in July 2003 expressing his unease...
...sharpest questioning during the hearings will likely come from Sen. Russel D. Feingold, D-Wis. Feingold, a fellow HLS alum, who is angry about what he considers misleading testimony from Gonzales during the attorney general’s confirmation hearing...