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...having botched the order of the words at his inauguration. An aide said he has also been figuring out how to move around the building. "At the end of the first night he had to ask somebody where he was supposed to go next," said Robert Gibbs, Obama's spokesman. "It's a pretty big house." Obama, who has moved with his family three times in the last three weeks, eventually made his way to the residence that he will call home for the next four years...
...Obama Administration will be reluctant to send detainees back to their home countries, especially if the governments in those countries don't measure up to international human rights norms. Some governments simply don't want any detainees back, and others are likely to release them without trial. (A Pentagon spokesman said recently that 61 of the 500 detainees already released from Gitmo may have returned to the jihad...
...every week for an indefinite period. The forced leave translates into pay cuts of at least 15%. But it avoids pink slips and allows TSMC to hang on to valuable staff. "This is a way that allows us to make the best of a bad situation," says TSMC spokesman Michael Kramer. "I'm not going to say it's a good thing, but there are worse things that could've happened, such as a pay cut with no leave, or layoffs...
...Although investigators acknowledge that the murder in broad daylight on a busy street means the killing was probably a professional contract hit, Vladimir Markin, an investigative-committee spokesman, on Tuesday said the killer could have been a "lone criminal" opposed to Markelov's position, Interfax reported...
...Perhaps it should. While the death toll was low compared with other recent attacks, the bomber - Shamsullah Rehman, according to the Taliban spokesman who took credit for the blast - was able to penetrate the very center of Kabul. He detonated his Toyota Corolla in front of the German embassy and across the street from a U.S. military base on one of the most well-guarded roads in the capital. The attack took place less than two months after a similar bombing in front of the U.S. embassy that killed four, and just over a year after an audacious commando-style...