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...women suspects for pistols and suicide belts. As the insurgency has grown more diffuse, increasing numbers of women are finding themselves in the teeth of combat. Says Lory Manning, a former Navy captain who is now a policy analyst at the Women's Research and Education Institute in Arlington, Va.: "This is the first time in U.S. history that women are allowed to shoot back...
...James H. Webb announced last Tuesday that he will seek the Virginia Democratic Party nomination to run for U.S. Senate this year. If he lands the nomination, Webb, who served as Secretary of the Navy under President Ronald Reagan, will run against one-term incumbent Senator George Allen, R-Va. The Harvard community greeted news of Webb’s decision to join the race with interest and enthusiasm. IOP Director of Communications Esten Perez said that “as a nonpartisan institute, the IOP doesn’t support or oppose specific political candidates. However, we?...
Thomas Jefferson passed much of his time writing letters from his home at Monticello, Va., to political heavyweights and family alike, revealing a more personal side to history...
...hearing, however, did report progress on getting a handle on their inventory. William Matthews, an assistant commissioner at the General Services Administration, said that it now maintains 376 vacant and underused assets, including office buildings, courthouses, laboratories and warehouses, out of a total of nearly 9,000 properties. The VA reported that 5% of its nearly 150 million square feet is vacant, including the main VA hospital in Milwaukee. In a federal budget that President Bush just proposed at $2.77 trillion, several billion dollars on unused office space may seem insignifcant. But Democratic Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, who joined...
...York Times reported that Sen. George Allen, R-Va., when asked for his opinion on Bernanke’s nomination, responded, “For what?” Informed that Bernanke had been nominated for the Fed chairmanship, Allen admitted that he had “paid no attention” to the hearings...