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...disorienting time for the U.S. Marine Corps in the wake of the alleged massacre of civilians in the Iraqi town of Haditha. One senior Marine officer, for example, is spending his days with grim reading, as Congress, the Pentagon and the press investigate charges that the Marines were responsible for the deaths of some two dozen Iraqi civilians. He has gone through Congressional reports about the My Lai massacre. He has read America in Vietnam by Guenter Lewy. He has a well-thumbed copy of The Rape of Nanking, a searing account of Japanese atrocities in that Chinese city during...
...government, the Arabs and the terrorists for the price of gas. Lee Kann Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. It amuses me no end to see Americans carping about gas prices while paying less than they are willing to pay for the same quantity of bottled water. It is time to wake up and realize that the price of a precious commodity whose supply is dwindling at an alarming rate can only go up, not down. It is time Americans start investing in public transport and working near their homes or living near their workplaces. Just think how much more you could accomplish...
...When George W. Bush shook up his White House staff a few weeks ago, the smart money in town took a decidedly blase attitude about it. Wake me, said a longtime Republican player, when they dump [Defense Secretary Donald] Rumsfeld and [Treasury Secretary John] Snow. Until then, he added, it's not a policy change of much significance...
...chairman Ken Lay, but he is still doing battle with, of all things, his alma mater. Seven years after making a $1.1 million gift to endow a chair in economics at the University of Missouri, Lay is now trying to have the money returned. Last September, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, he personally sought to have the money - as yet unused - transferred back to Houston to assist 14 charities in relief efforts, including preacher-author Joel Osteen's megachurch. Five months later in February this year, the trustee for Lay's assets went to the campus in Columbia...
...wake of reports that the NSA is monitoring phone records, Senator Arlen Specter, the Judiciary Committee chairman, said he would subpoena phone companies to appear before his committee. The phone companies said they would try to be there sometime between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m." TINA...