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Sunday proved a tougher contest, as Hall went up against the dominating Khan in the deciding game of her round-robin pool and fell...
...much about those rules. During his Hill testimony, intelligence chief Alexander held up an Army field manual that governs interrogation and said the procedures used in Iraq were the ones authorized in the book. Cambone and then Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz claimed they knew nothing of the tougher techniques allowing hard-pressure tactics. Though they have uncovered no paper trail, Senators were openly skeptical that Cambone and his bosses would have been in the dark about the procedures, since Miller reported directly to the Pentagon. Other Pentagon officials said Sanchez, at any rate, had never given anyone explicit permission...
...element in the form of a rival space gunship periodically charges across the screen firing at your own. That's very much like the situation in Iraq as the U.S. hurtles toward the June 30th handover: Taking care of one big problem seems only to present you with more, tougher smaller problems, and every now and then some outside force comes through taking potshots...
...delight of many. Jeffrey Sheu, spokesman for Taiwan-based bicycle maker Giant Manufacturing, applauds China's efforts to rein in the economy, because rising materials costs have eroded profit margins. Not only that, Giant, which operates three factories on the mainland and sells to Chinese consumers, hopes that tougher lending rules will prevent additional entrepreneurs from entering the business. "The bicycle industry in China is overcrowded, with too may competitors and too much price competition," he says...
...effect, gay marriage opponents requested an emergency order from the United States Supreme Court halting the dissemination of marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Fortunately, hours after the federal appeals court in Boston denied a similar request, the Supreme Court refused to grant the order. As the fight gets tougher for gay marriage opponents, they continue to cling to deceptive and self-righteous arguments about the sanctity of marriage and the immorality of homosexuality. Yet it remains unclear why the meaning of marriage should change simply because others in committed, loving relationships are also allowed to marry, and why, even...