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...turns 50 this month. For weeks rumors bubbled up to the seventh floor of the FBI's headquarters at the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington: Pistole was going to bolt for a lucrative job in the private sector. The whispers got so loud that Pistole took it upon himself to assure Mueller that he wasn't leaving. One reason he gave: it wouldn't be right to split when so many other senior officials have headed for the exits...
...Good riddance to al-Zarqawi, who killed a lot of innocent people in his limited time as a terrorist. But how does the evil he was responsible for compare with the death and destruction visited upon innocent Iraqis as a result of U.S. bombings and atrocities like Haditha? I await the day when the Iraqis celebrate a similar good riddance to the U.S. troops as they withdraw from Iraq. Shehzad Ahmed Mir Islamabad Is the Boom Over? "Can Spain sustain?" [June 19] reported on an economic matter that transcends ideological debates and is present in Spain's everyday life...
...Roosevelt privately expressed his "melancholy" over the South's "violent chronic hysteria," blacks looked upon Roosevelt as a savior and anointed Washington as their hero. The President vowed to invite Washington to dine "just as often as I please." But although Roosevelt consulted Washington throughout his presidency, neither the Tuskegee chief, nor any other black person, ever supped at the White House with Roosevelt again...
...opares" and every hot meal is a "curry." Peaceful normality reigns until one islander by the name of Symun starts preaching his doubts about the sacred texts. Far to the north, where a new London is rising, church leaders have an instrument of torture, shaped like a steering wheel, upon which to break heretics...
...repatriation is tricky. Many of the detainees' home countries either refuse to take them or haven't guaranteed that they won't be tortured upon their return. Take the case of the Uighurs--five ethnic Muslims from western China--who recently left Gitmo. The State Department didn't want to send the men back to China, where they are wanted by the authorities, but after contacting scores of countries the only willing host was Albania, where no one speaks Uighur...