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WITHDREW. MIGUEL ESTRADA, 41, conservative Washington lawyer and George W. Bush's choice for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals; from the pending nomination, following a bitter two-year battle in the Senate. Democrats had staged a filibuster to thwart the nomination, which they charged was another effort by Bush to pack the court with "out-of-the-mainstream" conservatives...
Looking back on it now, it is difficult to choose the precise moment when U.S. government officials--hobbled by old-fashioned rules, saddled with ancient computers that could not talk to one another and riven by silly bureaucratic rivalries--missed their best chance to thwart the plot by 19 hijackers to take over four airplanes, turn them into flying missiles and kill almost 3,000 people nearly two years...
...understands what I understand, that terrorists every time, every place will thwart the desires of those who want peace and freedom." GEORGE W. BUSH, during a Rose Garden meeting with Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinians' first Prime Minister...
...What's missing, though, is any high level contact by the Democratic candidates or the Democratic National Committee with Green leaders, and those leaders remain highly skeptical of the Dems. Green Party co-chairman Ben Manski said over the weekend that the Democratic Party has been trying to thwart the Greens at every turn. Among other actions, Democrats have worked to toughen the standards for third-party candidates to get on the ballot, even for downticket races, in numerous states, and they have used the redistricting process to subvert a Green member of the Maine legislature, Manski said. Asked...
...Hamas aims to thwart the Zionists' "aspir[ation] to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates." The charter cites the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a forgery originating in the early 1900s that purports to set out the secret plans of Jewish leaders to take over the world...