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...Emmy-winning actor and a regular on The Carol Burnett Show for more than a decade, Harvey Korman got his start in sketch comedy with appearances on The Red Skelton Show in 1961. But it was his work as a straight man opposite Burnett's over-the-top characters that truly marked him as a comic genius. He also graced the big screen, notably as the conniving Hedley Lamarr in the 1974 western comedy Blazing Saddles...
...Skelton, the Democratic chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, set the rhetorical tone for committee hearings Thursday on whether to grant detainees habeas corpus, the right to argue in court that they are illegally held. "We must match our bedrock commitment to the rule of law and human rights," the septuagenarian declared, "to the enemy's propaganda of hatred...
...early round of debate on Tuesday included both searing indictments of the Administration's strategy in the Middle East and harsh criticism of the Democrats for clawing recklessly at the President's standing. "We are here because a series of irretrievable strategic mistakes," said Democrat Ike Skelton, chairman of the Armed Sevices Committee. Countered Pete Sessions, a Republican from Texas: "What this resolution is all about is to politically neuter the President of the United States. It is about trying to do something that is politics, not policy...
...sustain a surge for that long without a significant drop in readiness and a growing shortage of equipment. That was another reason the generals were so reluctant to go along with this option. Earlier this week, the new chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Ike Skelton of Missouri, a man known for being extremely careful with his words, told a gathering in Washington that fully 40% of all U.S. equipment is now in Iraq or Afghanistan - making it virtually impossible to fully train new units to get ready to go there...
...developed good contacts with lawmakers from both parties, which may prove critical, as congressional Democrats are now vowing to fight any Administration plan to send more U.S. forces into Iraq as part of a so-called surge. He's "one of America's best strategists," enthuses Ike Skelton, the new Democratic chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. But one Marine general who knows the region says it actually makes some sense to put a naval officer in charge. If the U.S. begins redeploying forces outside of Iraq as a part of a drawdown it will increasingly have...