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...Congress is not an ATM." ROBERT BYRD, Democratic Senator from West Virginia, arguing against the White House request for $87 billion to help rebuild Iraq...
John says he doesn't feel guilty about being at Havana's sensual Tropicana stage show, especially since he's there with his wife. All the same, he would rather not give his last name. A former State Department analyst from Virginia, John, 57, often leads U.S. tourists on licensed exchange visits to communist Cuba. But the trips are supposed to be for educational purposes only, so John figures it's best not to let the U.S. government know he's enjoying a Las Vegas--style show whose scantily clad dancers cast nearly enough heat to relight his Cohiba cigar...
...CONVICTED. LEE BOYD MALVO, 18, suspect in last year's sniper shootings around Washington, D.C., that claimed 10 lives; on all three counts with which he was charged, including capital murder and terrorism, making him eligible for the death penalty; in Chesapeake, Virginia. Accomplice John Allen Muhammad, 42, was convicted of murder, terrorism and a firearms charge in November...
...Headed by former Virginia governor Jim Gilmore, the Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction voices concern, in its draft report, that civil liberties are getting too little attention as new security measures are proposed. It also cites a ?need for the White House to take more of an aggressive role as a more forward-looking body,? said a source familiar with the panel's work. ?If they're doing it, they're doing it in such a superficial or under-the-radar fashion that that it did not become apparent...
...Wagner herself has proved to be one of the big fish in the Harvard pond. Despite coming from a small high school in Virginia Beach, Va., Wagner has been on the varsity Alpine skiing team since sophomore year. “There have been instances in races when I thought, ‘I might die now,’” she says, covering her face with her hands...