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Although this drink may bear no actual resemblance to the favorite (non-alcoholic) iced tea, practicality trumps all: drinking one of these is sure to get you hammered with the utmost efficiency...
...should be treated was more complicated. Some years before, as head of the Vatican body investigating abuse by priests, he argued that accused clergymen should not be handed over to secular authorities. Rather, he wrote confidentially to bishops around the world in 2001, they should first be investigated under utmost secrecy within the church - thereby avoiding public hysteria and second-guessing by the media. (See pictures of President Obama meeting Pope Benedict...
...whirlwind trip that had begun in utmost secrecy: White House guidance released Friday placed Obama at Camp David until late Sunday afternoon. But on Saturday evening, the President traveled by helicopter to a closed hangar at Andrews Air Force Base, where Air Force One had been loaded with enough fuel for the 12 hour, 46 min. flight. The president's plane took off at 10:09 p.m., with the blinds drawn so as not to alert nearby residents...
...party affiliations in our government and instead assessing issues point-by-point is the only solution to reviving the complexities and beauty of our pluralistic political system, shortchanged by the outlandish desire to paint the nation blue or red. Should we not abolish our two-party system with the utmost urgency, then it will instead threaten to destroy the faithful representation of the people and the unity of our republic. We cannot continue to gerrymander America into ideological boundaries—a distinct Democratic States of America and Republican Confederacy. That is the inevitable outcome of our current two-party...
Finally, no one disagrees that we must address the root causes of terrorism. However, American counterterrorism policy must not be a zero-sum game. We must pursue both objectives—addressing terrorism’s causes and protecting ourselves from threats already in motion—with utmost vigor. Obama’s decision to reauthorize the Patriot Act validates its crucial role as an integral element of this effort...