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Juárez civic leaders like Vargas have long called for the kind of Mexican police and judicial reform that both countries are only now starting to make a priority. Meanwhile, Americans like El Paso County sheriff Richard Wiles want the U.S. to renew the assault-weapons ban that George W. Bush and the U.S. Congress allowed to expire in 2004. If it doesn't, they fear, the few Black Hawk helicopters that Washington ships to Mexico's antidrug warriors won't make up for the thousands of AK-47 rifles and even rocket-propelled grenades pouring into the hands...
...loaded is the term that it can override logic itself. In an official statement last year, President George W. Bush declared that “as many as 1.5 million Armenians lost their lives in the final years of the Ottoman Empire, many of them victims of mass killings and forced deportations.” Ironically, many Turkish activists celebrated this description for its omission of the word “genocide,” despite its overwhelming castigation of the events in all other ways. Never mind Bush’s accusation that their forebears had executed a campaign...
...played an integral role in post-9/11 governance when he was asked by President George W. Bush to leave his office as Governor of Pennsylvania to take the role of the first Assistant to the President for Homeland Security...
...feted with a video of First Lady Michelle Obama’s recent address to the EPA, in which she said, “The EPA is at the center of President Obama’s highest priorities.” Another award winner with Harvard ties was Michael W. Shannon, a pediatric toxicologist and the first African-American full professor of pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School. Shannon, who passed away last month, was honored for his work on lead poisoning and clinical pharmacology, as well as his devotion to the environment and children’s health. This...
...probe into Harman but were held back by then Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who allegedly argued to then CIA Director Porter Goss and then Director of National Intelligence Michael Hayden that Gonzales needed Harman's support as the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee to defend President George W. Bush's warrantless wiretaps...