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...Congress is not an ATM." ROBERT BYRD, Democratic Senator from West Virginia, to Paul Wolfowitz, on the White House's postwar funding request...
...That is a life 26-year-old Rangina Hamidi managed to escape. Her family left Kandahar in 1979, and after 10 years as refugees in Pakistan, ended up in the U.S. Her father became an accountant, and Rangina went to the prestigious University of Virginia. In her sophomore year, though, she started wearing a head scarf, puzzling her American friends and perturbing her liberal relatives. "I was very comfortable in America," she says, "but I always felt there was something missing." After the Taliban fell in 2001, Rangina said goodbye to her friends and family members, got on a plane...
Competing as Miss Virginia and Miss Rhode Island, respectively, Redd and Gray were seeking to follow in the footsteps of outgoing Miss America Erika Harold, who plans to enroll in Harvard Law School (HLS) in fall...
Redd became Miss Virginia in June, after making a name for herself around the country by raking in $250,000 on the television show “Who Wants to Be A Millionaire.” She later donated a significant portion of her winnings to the 4H Club, for which she is now a national spokesperson. Redd’s platform in the Miss America pageant was “4H: The Power of YOUth...
...approach, the storm's 160 km/h winds still caused damage worth an estimated $1 billion, prompting President George W. Bush to declare Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina disaster areas. The hurricane was expected to peter out over Canada by Sunday...