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...Congress as an institution is the problem. The top GOP congressional leaders had been informed of at least some of Foley's e-mails, but didn't directly ask Foley about them. Republican Rodney Alexander of Louisiana, under whom one of the pages worked, initially brought the problem to Tom Reynolds, the New York congressman who runs the National Republican Campaign Committee tasked with getting members reelected. His decision to go to Reynolds first adds fuel to the charge that Republicans saw this as much a political problem as a matter of keeping children safe. With approval numbers for Congress...
...seats most likely to flip is that of former House majority leader Tom DeLay, who stepped down a year ago amid revelations of his ties to Abramoff. Although DeLay dropped out of his House race after the primary last April, it was too late to get his name off the ballot. Now the Democratic candidate Nick Lampson is the favorite of most oddsmakers to beat the late-starting G.O.P. write-in candidate Shelley Sekula-Gibbs. In southeastern Ohio, former House Administration Committee chairman Bob Ney is retiring after pleading guilty last month to trading favors for campaign contributions from Abramoff...
...Tom Szaky's office could pass for a landfill. Szaky, 24, the co-founder and CEO of plant-food manufacturer TerraCycle, sits in a chair that was at one time another firm's trash, next to a computer on a desk that were both once trash, and, with near palpable enthusiasm, draws supply-and-demand graphs on scraps of paper to show why he's so fond of building his business out of trash. "What is garbage?" he asks, marker in hand. "It's any commodity with a negative value, right? It's something you're willing...
...McCain, who along with Graham and Warner had fought the Administration on some of the most coercive methods, insisted to reporters last week that the harshest techniques--such as waterboarding, stress positions, extreme sleep deprivation and hypothermia--could now be illegal. "For all the gloating from the Administration," says Tom Malinowski of Human Rights Watch, "they are not getting what they want on torture." And what methods are O.K.? No one inside or outside the CIA will say. Which may mean we're going to be fighting on "the dark side" for some time to come...
...three strokes. Facing temperatures hovering in the fifties and nearly constant rain, the twelve-team field suffered a nearly three-stroke hit to its scoring average. That was little consolation to the Crimson, as its score ballooned 14 strokes from an already disappointing 305 to 319. Said team captain Tom Hegge, “Part of it was the weather, but I think we all had a bad day as well. It affects everyone equally, so you can’t let it be an excuse.” In the second round, only two of the Crimson?...