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...weeks ago, two bodies lay by the side of the road leading to a Monrovia airport, hands tied behind their backs. A third man, denying he was a Krahn, pleaded with the rebels for his life -- but to no avail. Creating yet more violence, Prince Yormie Johnson, a Gio, split away from Taylor last February. By the summer, Johnson and his few hundred men had swept into the center of the capital, taking on both Doe's and Taylor's forces...
...afternoon,however, Sen. John Cornyn, the Texas sponsor of a bill that would have split the difference between the Sensenbrenner and Kennedy bills, was in full retreat - literally leaving the building through the basement passageways into the Russell Senate office building. At the end of the day, Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, Cornyn's co-sponsor, was left alone proposing a series of amendments and wishing out loud that Cornyn were still there to offer some of them himself. Each went down to defeat as Kennedy sat, Buddha-like and in complete control, casting proxy votes in his deep baritone...
...What even the ordinary man in the street foresaw before the Bush Administration started its war has at last come true: a country that the dictator Saddam held together with a brutal, tight grip is spinning out of control. People unaccustomed to democracy and split by long-lasting rivalries are unlikely to seek peaceful coexistence. Maybe the American ideal of a national melting pot enticed the Bush Administration into irresponsibly simplifying the complicated situation in Iraq. Hans Gerbig Gersthofen, Germany...
...advantage they enjoy on issues such as rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina, protecting Americans' rights, standing up to special interests and corruption, managing government spending and tax policy. Still, the Republicans retain an 11-point edge over the Democrats on the question of dealing with terrorism, while voters are evenly split on the question of which party would better handle the war in Iraq - issues that were key to the Republicans' success in the last two elections...
...Arts and Sciences will now occupy the third floor of the Holyoke Center. This move will be the first time in over a quarter of a century that the admissions office has moved. The undergraduate admissions offices have occupied Byerly Hall since 1974 when the offices were still split in half between Harvard and Radcliffe College. Two years later, the Colleges admitted the Class of 1980—the first joint class of men and women, according to Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67. Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences...