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Though Little lacks the pass-catching capabilities Veach displayed last weekend, fullback Scott Wedum has solid hands out of the backfield and can be counted on to provide a safety outlet should long passing routes downfield break down. Against Penn’s staunch defense, Wedum reeled in eight catches for 53 yards...
Five days later, the Iraqi leader could no longer keep up his staunch facade. His orders largely unheeded, his soldiers declining to fight, Saddam went out for a look at his falling capital, a secretary who accompanied him recalls. Saddam stood on Zaitun Street, the boulevard decorated with monumental statues of two muscular forearms holding swords that cross above the roadway. As he turned to leave, he paused. Using an Arabic expression of utter disillusionment, he muttered, "Even my clothes have betrayed...
...Philippines Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is Bush's staunch ally in the War on Terror. Her presidency is also threatened by a restive Philippine military. We've seen this play before: during a coup attempt against former President Corazon Aquino in 1989, the first President Bush ordered U.S. warplanes to buzz the skies over Manila in order to show that the U.S. was against the mutineers...
...emerged on the American political scene first as a civil rights activist in the 1950s and 1960s and subsequently as a staunch opponent of the Vietnam...
...stint in the U.S. as a pharmaceuticals salesman, Yee enrolled in a prestigious theological school in Damascus, where he studied for four years. It was in Syria that he met his fiance. His defenders say Yee returned from Syria with a deep devotion to Islam, though he remained a staunch American patriot. "He always said the world should condemn 9/11, and he was unambiguous in his condemnation of the terrorists," says Mohamad Joban of the Islamic Center of Olympia, a mosque in which Yee was active. "He saw it as his duty to be in Guantanamo to serve his country...