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...used to support the government, now we are all with Fatah al-Islam," said local resident Mohammed Ammar, 22, referring to the small Al-Qaeda-linked faction bottled up in the Nahr al-Bared camp whose leaders have sworn to fight to the death...
...Lebanese government has sworn to crush Fatah al-Islam and an imminent showdown at Nahr al-Bared seems to be drawing near, but the boiling resentment in neighborhoods like Tebbaneh suggests that Lebanon's struggle against radical Islamists may be far from over...
...Daley, sworn in Monday to his record sixth term, ended up easily getting his way. But the victory riled some critics of his campaign against homelessness, who feel that Daley's promise - made just before the 2003 elections - has been as much about politics as policy, a showpiece meant to win favor in a city of favors, and help bring the 2016 Summer Olympics to the city...
...Washington divided government loosens lips; narratives that might never have been told play out as sworn testimony. Some witnesses encase their truths in leaden prose. Not so James Comey, a former Deputy Attorney General, who unspooled a vivid tale in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee about the night in March 2004 when he raced to the hospital to prevent two top White House aides from taking advantage of his critically ill boss, John Ashcroft, in a dispute over the Administration's secret domestic eavesdropping program. Comey was acting Attorney General while Ashcroft was incapacitated by pancreatitis. Like his boss...
...Harvard M.B.A. on the GI Bill and hooked up with a back-home politician named Lyndon Johnson. Valenti was the Vice President's press rep on a trip to Dallas in November 1963 and stood next to him on the flight back to Washington when Johnson was sworn in as President. As devoted as one of the big man's beagles, Valenti famously said, "I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my President." In May 1966 he transferred his loyalty from LBJ to the MPAA. He looked to be a fellow...