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...very difficult to believe the CIA would deliberately destroy evidence material to the 9/11 investigation, evidence that would cover up a core truth, such as who really was behind 9/11. On the other hand I have to wonder what space-time continuum the CIA exists in, if they weren't able to grasp what a field day the 9/11 conspiracy theorists are going to have with this - especially at a time when trust for the government is plumbing new depths...
...Lessons in Culture This new breed of Chinese immigrant is transforming the Yokohama Yamate School, Japan's largest Chinese-language academy. Founded in 1898, the school originally catered to the children of dockworkers or small-time traders, most of whom weren't eligible for Japanese citizenship. Qualified teachers were so rare that classes had to be conducted in a hodgepodge of Chinese dialects depending on who was available. But over the past decade, as the student population has nearly doubled to more than 400, principal Pang Minsheng has witnessed an educational revolution. Many of the students' parents...
...HANKS Well, I remember the invasion. I remember President Carter coming out, and there was a big dramatic thing on TV: the Soviet Union has invaded Afghanistan--we were going to cancel the Olympics, and we weren't going to go to Moscow in 1980. I didn't realize what the covert action of the CIA had done, and whatnot...
Huckabee's first few hours in the big time weren't exactly reassuring. When a man in Newton asked him about Dumond, Huckabee answered with an airy discourse on corrections policy that left the misleading impression that Dumond's parole was the Arkansas legislature's idea. That's not likely to cut it once voters hear from Shields' mother, Lois Davidson, who told ABCNews.com this week that she will do "whatever it takes" to keep Huckabee out of the White House. Nor did his under-populated, overwhelmed staff do Huckabee any favors. At a dinner with reporters on Tuesday night...
...guys that they're like Albanian rednecks," says Michael Riley, attorney for Shain. There is something about the men's behavior that seems like that of kids at play. "It's like they were pretending," says Dritan's attorney, Huff. "The challenge will be to convince a jury they weren't serious...