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• Won a seat on the Houston City Council in 1997 on her third try, becoming Houston's first openly gay elected official. Won her bid to be city controller - the No. 2 elected position - in 2003, and ran unopposed for re-election in 2005 and 2007. (Read "What's...
"Tonight the voters of Houston have opened the doors to history ... I know what this win means to many of us who thought we could never achieve high office. I know what it means. I understand, because I feel it too. But now, from this moment, let us join as...
"There will be no lodgings in it, and it will be administering to the most vulnerable of refugees," says Philippe Lefilleul, a member of Secours Catholique. "Resistance to any facility was sufficiently high that we're having to limit what we do to minimum humanitarian levels."
What's been good for Centcom has also been good for the high-tech U.S. arms industry. Despite the global recession, Arab states have signed huge deals for U.S. military hardware, whose sophistication has been on full display in two long wars in the neighborhood. Petraeus said countries in the...
Yet Iran's air force is not what has the region nervous. Much of last weekend's annual Manama Dialogue in Bahrain - a conference of top military and government officials from across the region, where Petraeus spoke with TIME and which was also attended by an Iranian delegation - was devoted...