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...Instead, the scandal appears to be deepening. Hastert has turned to Page 1 of the Washington playbook: He has called for an investigation, a move applauded by President Bush. "I fully support Speaker Hastert's call for an investigation by law enforcement into this matter. This investigation should be thorough and any violations of law should be prosecuted," the President said at a stop at a California elementary school that had been named for him. "Now, I know Denny Hastert, I meet with him a lot. He is a father, teacher, coach, who cares about the children of this country...
...ought to focus on combating the problem at its source: by offering strengthened civics courses in high school. After all, it is in high school that most students undertake their most comprehensive study of our nation’s history and institutions. Students should leave high school with a thorough and conceptual understanding of our nation’s basic political and governmental landscape, not a list of names and events to have memorized. College is a time to expand the bounds of one’s personal knowledge by exploring a variety of complex subjects in depth...
...been very disappointed. It's about the war. I feel very strongly that anybody who represents me has to be fierce in questioning authority. Hillary - and so many people in the Senate - did not look at the grounds for the war in Iraq in an effective or thorough way. As a matter of fact, she supported it. I can't get behind that. Right now I'm looking for younger women at the grassroots level who I can help develop and support as they become leaders, people who are coming from a place where they're fighting for justice, peace...
...repairing his reputation.”The New Yorker has so far not apologized, releasing a statement saying that they “stand by the piece and the journalists.” According to the statement, the article was the result of four months of “thorough, careful reporting and meticulous fact-checking.” “In addition,” it said, “the magazine’s fact-checkers spoke with Dr. Yau for approximately eight hours, they examined notes, tapes, and documents gathered by the authors, and the checkers...
...relationship between the insurance business and global warming? Think of it as the canary in the corporate mine. Insurance companies' fortunes are directly tied to the accuracy of their environmental-risk projections. And as our climate continues to warm up and catastrophic weather events increase, those projections have needed thorough overhauls. Last year, for example, the industry's catastrophe models assumed that three Atlantic superstorms wouldn't occur in one year. But, in August, it wasn't just a run-of-the-mill third superstorm (if such a thing were possible) that proved the models wrong - it was Hurricane Katrina...