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...also learned recently that almost as soon as Rumsfeld's successor, Robert Gates, assumed his new job, he started pushing to shut down Guantánamo. It was too tainted in the eyes of the world, he argued, for its verdicts to be accepted. He lost the fight, but it spoke of a shift in attitude in high places. Gates implied what many Americans have suspected for a while--that Guantánamo, too, is a lamentable case, one that does the U.S. more harm than good...
...Livingston. In 1970 she was given personal papers Nixon wanted to donate to the archives, along with an affidavit, prepared by a manuscripts dealer, indicating the President had handed over the documents a year earlier, when old tax law would have afforded him a $450,000 tax benefit. Livingston spoke up about the ploy, prompting Congress to rule the deduction was improper...
What did Klein mean by arguing that the leading Republican candidates, with their multiple marriages, "live like liberals"? In 2004 the 13 states with the highest rates of divorce were red. The nine states with the lowest divorce rates were blue. Those Republican candidates Klein spoke of were living as typical conservatives--they marry, and marry often. William Ortenberg, BENICIA, CALIF...
...elaborate network of bunkers and fortified firing positions built over a six-year period in sealed-off valleys and hilltops throughout south Lebanon was key to Hizballah's ability to survive Israel's onslaught during last summer's month-long war. Israeli soldiers spoke of Hizballah fighters bursting out of the ground to loose off a rocket-propelled grenade before disappearing into the earth again. Israeli air crews hunted, often in vain, for the sources of Katyusha rocket fire, sometimes emanating from within a few hundred yards of the border. One bunker complex discovered and dynamited by Israeli troops...
...Instead, Edwards said nothing would change; his campaign would continue and Elizabeth would be by his side on the road. Elizabeth spoke about the importance of her husband's campaign, how the country needs him to be President. Both said there was never a debate yesterday, as they were receiving the news about her condition, about whether he should drop out of the race. John said that when the two of them were alone, Elizabeth was concerned about everyone but herself - her children, her husband and her country, in that order, but not herself...