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...Number of FBI agents in the bureau's 12,000-strong force with Arabic skills equal to those of a native speaker. Just 33 have at least limited proficiency in Arabic 1,400 Number of agents who have at least limited proficiency in a foreign language. Nearly 900 of those agents speak Spanish
...invited a range of advocates of restrictions on stem cell research, but all of them failed to respond, said Co-president Francis S. Kim ’07. “Because we are a new organization that not many people know about, it was very difficult to get speakers from outside the area,” Kim said. “And as we know, Cambridge is overwhelmingly liberal.” Melton, the symposium’s keynote speaker, laid out the scientific and social implications of stem cell research. He emphasized the adaptability of stem cells...
...audience gathered by MoveOn.org at Georgetown University. It was supposed to be a big deal, one of three speeches MoveOn had scheduled to lay out its 2008 issues agenda, a chance for the best-known group of activist Democrats to play footsie with the party's most charismatic speaker, and vice versa. But it was a disappointment, the closest I had seen Obama come to seeming a standard-issue pol, one who declares a crisis and answers with Band-Aids. In this case, he produced a few scraggly carrots and sticks to encourage Detroit to produce more fuel-efficient cars...
DENNIS HASTERT, Republican Speaker of the House, conceding that he could have handled the congressional-page scandal more deftly but resisting continued calls for his resignation...
DEAD MAN BALKING Bloggers crack wise after imperiled House Speaker Dennis Hastert gives a press conference on the congressional-page scandal with a cemetery visible in the background. Two days later, images of Hastert's Jabba the Hut--like visage, at a fund-raising event in the company of President Bush, are splashed across papers. With Bush's approval rating hovering around 40%, we have a suggestion: bring back the boneyard...