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When President Bush visited Walter Reed Army Medical Center last week to witness three U.S. soldiers seriously wounded in Iraq become U.S. citizens, he said that "if somebody's willing to risk their lives for our country, they ought to be full participants in our country." It was an executive...
Certainly Pyongyang's behavior hasn't changed. At the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit last week, appeals were made for the North to participate in talks on its missile and nuclear programs. They were spurned; Pyongyang issued a statement calling U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice a "political imbecile...
Now the buyout firms are back, and there are more of them. The new boom is being fed by low interest rates, a no-go stock market and banks eager to lend. CEOs are more willing to listen since stepped-up regulation and a focus on short-term performance has...
Ayah Bdeir, by contrast, was left to her own devices. She and her sister, both Canadian citizens, attempted to leave together and were advised to evacuate with the Canadian embassy. "We felt a lot of people needed [their help] more than we did," she said. "We heard rumors that 25...
After these talks, Netivot officials concluded that the number of students “willing and able” to come on the trip without uncertainty was too small to continue with the plans.