Why Won't We Let Them Fill the Ranks?
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By Brigid Schulte
Sunday, June 3, 2007; B01
All this past year, Navy and Marine Corps recruiters kept calling
Jonathan. The 17-year-old liked what they said to him. And they liked
him. He was young and healthy, a star soccer player on his school
team. He was fluent in English and Spanish, interested in computers
and engineering and about to graduate from T.C. Williams High School
in Alexandria. He wasn't afraid to die for his country, he told them.
A Navy recruiter came to Jonathan's apartment one evening last fall
and won his family over with promises that the Navy could help him
continue his studies in college -- something financially out of reach
for his mother, who works as a babysitter, and father, an electrician
and sometime pizza deliveryman.
Life in the Inferno of Baghdad
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By Terry McCarthy
Sunday, June 3, 2007; B01
BAGHDAD
Abu Taha, a portly, smiling man with two young children, lives a
couple of blocks from our house in Baghdad. I arrived here to cover
the war for ABC News last July, and one of the few pleasures I have
found is sitting with him on his flat roof, where he keeps pigeons in
a series of coops. In the evening, as the sun glows orange on the
buildings, he releases them, and they fly wide spirals over the
neighborhood, circling the dome of a mosque, ducking below a brace of
Black Hawk helicopters headed for the Green Zone, soaring up over the
Tigris River before returning for the handful of seeds that he throws
down for them. Nowhere else but here, Abu Taha says, does he feel at
peace, putting out of his mind the explosions, gunfire and rocket
attacks that shake Baghdad. His birds fly free over the deadly streets
of this city, unhindered by checkpoints, traffic jams, angry young men
with guns and explosives. Only birds can go where they like in Baghdad
these days.
Two and a half weeks ago, two of my friends, Alaa Uldeen Aziz, a
cameraman, and Saif Laith Yousuf, his soundman, were heading home from
our bureau. They were stopped by two cars full of gunmen just 100
yards from Alaa's house, dragged into the street and taken away. We
later discovered they were shot dead. We do not know whether they were
killed because they worked for an American network, because of their
religion or because they happened to be in the wrong place at the
wrong time. Either way, they were innocent victims of the violence
that is eating away at this city's humanity: a father of two young
girls who still don't understand why Daddy isn't coming home, and a
man whose fiancee used to call him every hour on his cellphone to make
sure he was okay.
You're Not Earning as Much as the Guys? Here's Why.
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By Linda Hirshman
Sunday, June 3, 2007; B01
Ah, graduation -- that time of optimism, of looking to the future and
its possibilities. Of dreaming big.
For girls now finishing high school, the future has never looked
brighter. Many will go on to college; women comprised 55 percent of
college students in 2005. They'll be equal to the men at their
schools, paying the same tuition and taking the same classes. They'll
be the student equivalents of stem cells, capable of becoming
anything. That's certainly what Pace University sophomore Liz Funk
believes. The 20-year-old already has a contract from a major
publisher for a book about overachieving girls, and she can't imagine
that she'll ever earn less than a future husband will.
Darfur, Saving Itself
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By Julie Flint
Sunday, June 3, 2007; Page B02
NORTH DARFUR, Sudan
Kaltouma Musa walked home a few weeks ago carrying her baby on her
back and holding her young brother tightly by the hand. She had left a
camp for the displaced where she had been receiving aid to return to a
rebel-controlled area with no aid, marked on maps as a no-go zone
where the African Union and United Nations fear to tread.
"Home" is Bornyo, one of a string of villages in the Ain Siro
mountains of North Darfur, the first base of the insurgency in the
Darfur region. It was destroyed by Sudanese troops and the
predominantly Arab Janjaweed militia soon after the rebellion began in
2003. The assault on Bornyo was, by the standards of the day, an
everyday catastrophe. Supported by bombers and helicopter gunships,
the government's ground forces killed, raped and looted. They burned
every building in the village. Kaltouma, then just 16, was caught and
whipped, but she somehow managed to escape. Her father and two
brothers were shot dead. Her uncle ran for his life but was chased by
Janjaweed on horseback until he collapsed and was killed, too.
Portrait of the Candidate as a Young Climber
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By Carl Bernstein
Sunday, June 3, 2007; B03
The most important man in Hillary Rodham Clinton's life during her
years at Wellesley College was Don Jones, a Methodist youth minister
whom she had known since 10th grade, when he rolled into her hometown
of Park Ridge, Ill., driving a red Chevy Impala convertible and
advocating justice and social reform.
By mail, he became her counselor, confessor, partner in Socratic
debate and spiritual adviser. When depression struck in college, she
turned to him, as she would for the next three decades, including the
year of her husband's impeachment. He focused her on theologian Paul
Tillich's sermon "You Are Accepted," in which he says that sin and
grace coexist. "Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and
restlessness," Tillich said. "It happens; or it does not happen."
Hillary was convinced there would be grace in her life, and meanwhile,
she would just carry on.
Myths About That $3.18 Per Gallon
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By Lisa Margonelli
Sunday, June 3, 2007; B03
Whew, gas prices are high. Higher than they've ever been. During the
week of May 21, the Lundberg Survey, a biweekly gas price tracking
service, put the average cost of a gallon of unleaded at $3.18.
Adjusted for inflation, that topped the 1981 price spike that had held
the record for 26 years. Prices have slipped a bit since then, but
many predict they'll stay up near the stratosphere all summer.
Wondering why? The answers may not be what you think. Here are five
common myths about why we're paying so much at the pump.
Now It's Their Turn to Buy U.S.
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By Daniel Gross
Sunday, June 3, 2007; Page B05
All around the world, free enterprise is spreading. China, India and
Russia, all formerly bastions of state control, are now beacons of
helter-skelter capitalism and entrepreneurship. It's a safe bet that
at no time in human history has so much of the world's industrial
capacity been in private hands. And for this we can thank the powerful
forces unleashed by free trade, the wider adoption of market
capitalism, and the growing competition and interconnectedness of the
world's economies.
But these same forces are leading to a rising wave of governments and
government-affiliated entities snapping up assets and enterprises that
used to belong to the private sector.
A Route To Better Health Care
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By David S. Broder
Sunday, June 3, 2007; Page B07
As an adviser to Bill and Hillary Clinton, Ken Thorpe had a close-up
view of the fiasco that was health care reform in 1993-94. Since that
effort crashed, he, like many others, has watched in frustration as
costs have soared and health insurance has moved beyond the reach of
millions more Americans -- 46 million in all.
But unlike others, the Emory University professor of health policy has
a clear strategy for attacking the problem, and he is beginning to
enlist influential allies in his cause.
Watching Our Welcome Mat
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By Jim Hoagland
Sunday, June 3, 2007; Page B07
SINGAPORE -- The rancorous American debate over changing U.S.
immigration law does not end at the water's edge. The choices that
Congress will soon make are being watched and judged abroad for what
they will say about the future that Americans want for themselves and
for the world.
Immigration -- along with climate change and protectionism -- now
heads the list of the most urgent and divisive global issues in
country after country. How the United States handles the estimated 12
million illegal immigrants inside its borders while establishing new
gates or barriers for those yet to come has significant global
implications that are too rarely examined on Capitol Hill.
The Ideas Engine Needs a Tuneup
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By David Ignatius
Sunday, June 3, 2007; Page B07
PHOENIX -- Technology is about taking risks. Government bureaucracy is
about avoiding mistakes. The mismatch between the two is creating a
funding squeeze that could undermine America's dominance of the new
technologies that will be crucial to the nation's security in the 21st
century.
That was the disturbing consensus among a group of the nation's
leading scientists who gathered here last week to discuss the
converging technologies -- biology, information technology,
nanotechnology, robotics -- that are transforming the life sciences.
The conference was sponsored by the Highlands Forum, a Pentagon-funded
group that brings together defense officials, scientists and analysts
for regular discussions.
What Voters Want: Competence
By George F. Will
Sunday, June 3, 2007; Page B07
One time, years ago, the veteran Baltimore newspaperman, H.L. Mencken,
was checking copy coming in from the night editor and sighing at the
rising number of errors he was noticing, errors of fact but also of
syntax, and even some idioms that didn't sound quite right. He shook
his head and said, as much to himself as to the editor at his side:
"The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple
competence, in any field from adultery to zoology."
-- Alistair Cooke, "Memories of the Great and the Good"
The 'Blame The Iraqis' Gambit
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By Robert Kagan
Sunday, June 3, 2007; Page B07
When people want to justify the unjustifiable and accept the
unacceptable, they try all kinds of ways to make themselves feel
better about their decision. For those who want to pull out of Iraq,
there is a whole panoply of excuses:
"Bush lied us into war" is the favorite of many Democrats, including
presidential candidates who supported the war but now want to claim
they were misled. "Bush screwed up the war" is the favorite of people
such as me and others who argued from the beginning for more troops
and a different military strategy and were told to shut up by folks in
the Pentagon and the White House.
Marriage, Loving and The Law
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A Supreme Court Ruling Resonates 40 Years Later
Sunday, June 3, 2007; Page B08
In June 1958, Virginia residents Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter
traveled to the District, got married and returned home. An
unexceptional story but for one fact: Richard was white and Mildred
black. Their marriage therefore violated Virginia's Racial Integrity
Act. The Lovings were convicted in Virginia court and sentenced to a
year in jail, with the sentence suspended on the condition that they
leave Virginia and not return together for 25 years.
They got back sooner. On June 12, 1967 -- 40 years ago next Tuesday --
the Supreme Court struck down Virginia's ban on interracial marriages.
Writing for a unanimous court, Chief Justice Earl Warren stated that
the restriction served no purpose but that of "invidious racial
discrimination" and therefore violated the equal protection clause of
the 14th Amendment.
After the Surge
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It's time for the president and Congress to begin talking about a
smaller, more sustainable mission in Iraq.
Sunday, June 3, 2007; Page B06
THE BUSH administration's invocation of South Korea as a model for the
future of the U.S. military mission in Iraq is misleading in some
ways. Opponents of the war, such as Senate Majority Leader Harry M.
Reid (D-Nev.), tend to jump to the conclusion that President Bush
hopes to keep American troops in Iraq for 50 years; in fact, as
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates explained, the administration's real
point is that Iraq should not end like Vietnam, with a "lock, stock
and barrel" pullout before the conflict ends. But if the Korea analogy
exaggerates the likely length of the Iraq mission, it also makes it
sound easier than it should. Following the armistice that ended the
Korean war, the U.S. mission there suffered few casualties. For the
foreseeable future, any U.S. military presence in Iraq will mean a
continuing and painful cost in American lives.
More War on AIDS
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Mr. Bush proposes to double America's commitment.
Sunday, June 3, 2007; Page B06
THOSE WHO questioned President Bush's commitment to fight the
pernicious progression of HIV and AIDS around the world should be
doubters no more. Not only did he meet his pledge of $15 billion over
five years, he also called on Congress last week to reauthorize the
President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) for another five
years -- long after he's vacated the Oval Office. This is one foreign
policy initiative that should get Congress's swift approval.
N=2EY. Airport Target of Plot, Officials Say
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3 Held in Alleged Plan to Bomb JFK
By Anthony Faiola and Steven Mufson
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, June 3, 2007; A01
NEW YORK, June 2 -- Authorities said Saturday that they had broken up
an alleged terrorist plot to bomb aviation fuel tanks and pipelines at
John F. Kennedy International Airport, arresting a former airport
worker and two other men with links to Islamic extremists in South
America and the Caribbean.
The lone U.S. resident and alleged leader of the conspiracy, Russell
Defreitas, 63, a native of the small South American nation of Guyana,
was arrested in Brooklyn. Two others -- one of them a former member of
parliament and religious leader in Guyana -- were being held abroad,
and a fourth man was being sought by authorities overseas.
Attacks on U.S. Troops in Iraq Grow in Lethality, Complexity
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Bigger Bombs a Key Cause of May's High Death Toll
By Ann Scott Tyson and John Ward Anderson
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, June 3, 2007; A01
As U.S. troops push more deeply into Baghdad and its volatile
outskirts, Iraqi insurgents are using increasingly sophisticated and
lethal means of attack, including bigger roadside bombs that are
resulting in greater numbers of American fatalities relative to the
number of wounded.
Insurgents are deploying huge, deeply buried munitions set up to
protect their territory and mounting complex ambushes that demonstrate
their ability to respond rapidly to U.S. tactics. A new
counterinsurgency strategy has resulted in decreased civilian deaths
in Baghdad but has placed thousands of additional American troops at
greater risk in small outposts in the capital and other parts of the
country.
Lessons in the Shared Scars of War
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Va. Teacher Who Served in Iraq Forges Ties With Baghdad Teen
By Tara Bahrampour
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, June 3, 2007; A01
One day last fall, Felix Herrera was teaching science at Wakefield
High School when a helicopter rumbled overhead. The Army reservist's
war instincts kicked in: His adrenaline surged, and his eyes shot to
the window.
Nothing out there. Most students had not even noticed the chopper. But
one had. Herrera exchanged glances with the 14-year-old from Baghdad.
Clinton Accents Her Midwestern Roots
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By Anne E. Kornblut and Perry Bacon Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, June 3, 2007; A01
For years, when Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton talked about her family,
it was usually her famous husband or their well-known daughter. But
Clinton has recently been discussing a more elusive figure in her
life: her mother.
"She didn't have a very easy time of it as a young child," Clinton (D-
N=2EY.) said during an address to Democratic Party activists in
California, describing the journey Dorothy Howell Rodham made in
search of a home after her teenage parents divorced in 1920 and sent
her away.
Former Congressman to Head Efforts to Bring Liberals to the Polls
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By Chris Cillizza And Shailagh Murray
Sunday, June 3, 2007; Page A02
America Votes, the lone progressive soft-money organization to survive
beyond the 2004 election, will name former congressman Martin Frost (D-
Tex.) as its new president tomorrow -- the first step in coordinating
a massive voter-turnout operation heading into the 2008 election.
"Encouraging people to vote, being part of a large turnout for the
2008 election is something that appeals to me," Frost said in an
interview last week.
Clinton, Giuliani Maintain Leads, But GOP Shows Signs of Shifting
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By Dan Balz and Jon Cohen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, June 3, 2007; A04
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York holds a solid lead over her
rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination, while the contest
for the Republican nomination appears even more unsettled than it did
when it began five months ago, according to a new Washington Post-ABC
News poll.
Clinton's lead remains steady over her two principal challengers, Sen.
Barack Obama of Illinois and former senator John Edwards of North
Carolina, and the poll contains troubling news for both. Obama's
support has softened noticeably, highlighting the challenge he faces
in turning high interest in his candidacy into votes. Edwards,
meanwhile, has lost ground nationally over the past few months.
Employers Oppose Hiring Provisions in Immigration Bill
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By Krissah Williams
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, June 3, 2007; Page A06
As Congress reconvenes this week, businesses and their lobbyists are
gearing up to fight a series of proposed changes to immigration law
that they say will complicate hiring.
Their target is Senate legislation that would legalize an estimated 12
million undocumented immigrants but also significantly change
employment law. Among employers' top concerns is a provision imposing
criminal liability for employers if their subcontractors hire illegal
workers. The legislation would also increase civil penalties for
employers caught hiring illegal workers.
Rally Draws Thousands of Immigrants to Capitol
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As Senate Debates Complex Bill, Some Cite Simple Rights
By Pamela Constable
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, June 3, 2007; Page A06
Waving tiny American flags, a crowd of several thousand people --
almost all of Central American or Mexican origin -- rallied yesterday
at the U.S. Capitol on a humid afternoon to call for immigration
reform and demand a fair path to legalization for the country's
estimated 12 million illegal immigrants.
Although the peaceful gathering on the West Lawn was organized to give
immigrants a voice in the current debate on a complex Senate
immigration reform bill, the message of many speeches from the stage
and comments in the crowd was a simpler, more universal appeal for
respect and rights.
Legal Residents Dismayed Over Latest Measures
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By N.C. Aizenman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, June 3, 2007; A06
With the immigration debate focused on the estimated 12 million
immigrants who have come to the United States illegally, hundreds of
thousands of others who have obeyed the law are disappointed by the
legislation now pending in Congress.
They had hoped that immigration law would be changed to eliminate the
five- to 10-year wait before their spouses and children can join them.
But neither the compromise bill under debate in the Senate nor a House
bill introduced this year addresses the backlog.
Before War, CIA Warned of Negative Outcomes
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Analysts in 2002 Described Worst-Case Scenarios, Including Anarchy in
Iraq, Global Antipathy to U.S.
By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, June 3, 2007; Page A08
On Aug. 13, 2002, the CIA completed a classified, six-page
intelligence analysis that described the worst scenarios that could
arise after a U.S.-led removal of Saddam Hussein: anarchy and
territorial breakup in Iraq, a surge of global terrorism, and a
deepening of Islamic antipathy toward the United States.
Titled "The Perfect Storm: Planning for Negative Consequences of
Invading Iraq," the paper, written seven months before the war began,
also speculated about al-Qaeda operatives taking "advantage of a
destabilized Iraq to establish secure safe havens from which they can
continue their operations," according to a report about prewar
intelligence recently released by the Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence.
Iranian Flow Of Weapons Increasing, Officials Say
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Arms Shipments Tracked To Iraqi, Afghan Groups
By Robin Wright
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, June 3, 2007; Page A14
Iran has increased arms shipments to both Iraq's Shiite extremists and
Afghanistan's Taliban in recent weeks in an apparent attempt to
pressure American and other Western troops operating in its two
strategic neighbors, according to senior U.S. and European officials.
In Iraq, Iranian 240mm rockets, which have a range of up to 30 miles
and could significantly change the battlefield, have been used
recently by Shiite extremists against U.S. and British targets in
Basra and Baghdad, the officials said. Three of the rockets have
targeted U.S. facilities in Baghdad's Green Zone, and one came very
close to hitting the U.S. Embassy in the Iraqi capital, according to
the U.S. officials.
Insurgents Hit Bridge North Of Baghdad
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Systematic Targeting of Spans Blocks Neighborhoods, Roads
By Joshua Partlow
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, June 3, 2007; A14
BAGHDAD, June 2 -- Insurgents blasted a gaping hole in a major bridge
on the main highway from Baghdad to northern Iraq on Saturday, part of
a growing effort to target Iraq's infrastructure and immobilize its
people.
Ever since a large chunk of Baghdad's steel-beamed Sarafiya bridge
splashed into the Tigris River in April, attackers have systematically
targeted bridges in and around the capital. The tactic has further
sealed off neighborhoods, blocked vital transportation links and, in
some cases, worsened divisions between Sunnis and Shiites.
Thousands of Pakistanis Rally Around Ousted Judge
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By Griff Witte
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, June 3, 2007; Page A14
HARIPUR, Pakistan, June 2 -- Tens of thousands of people took to the
streets Saturday in one of the strongest displays of opposition yet to
President Pervez Musharraf, even as the government cracked down on the
media in an attempt to control a burgeoning crisis.
The figure at the center of the movement against Musharraf -- the
country's chief justice, Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry -- was mobbed by
supporters along the route from the capital, Islamabad, to the
northern city of Abbotabad, where he gave a speech late Saturday
night. Hundreds of cars and trucks escorted the judge, and he was
welcomed in each town he visited with boisterous cheers and pounding
drums.
Russia's Champion of Hopeless Cases Is Targeted for Disbarment
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By Peter Finn
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, June 3, 2007; A16
MOSCOW -- Karina Moskalenko spent a sleepless night in Strasbourg,
France, last month writing and rewriting a petition to the European
Court of Human Rights for Garry Kasparov, the chess champion and anti-
Kremlin activist who was briefly arrested in connection with a
demonstration here in April that riot police violently broke up.
As soon as Moskalenko, one of Russia's leading human rights lawyers,
had filed the plea, she flew back to Moscow for a court appearance on
behalf of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the imprisoned oil tycoon under
investigation on fresh charges of money-laundering.
Lebanese Army Pounds Fighters at Refugee Camp
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By Alia Ibrahim
Special to The Washington Post
Sunday, June 3, 2007; Page A16
TRIPOLI, Lebanon, June 2 -- The Lebanese army deployed a missile-
firing helicopter and soldiers carried out door-to-door searches
Saturday in a second day of fighting between the military and a
radical Islamic faction based in a Palestinian refugee camp in
northern Lebanon.
In images becoming familiar since a tattered cease-fire collapsed
Friday, clouds of gray smoke hovered over the seaside camp, where as
many as 10,000 Palestinians remain trapped. The crackle of gunfire
reverberated across the verdant hills surrounding Nahr al-Bared camp,
and tanks and artillery kept up a deafening barrage through the day.
U=2ES. Warship Fires Missiles at Fighters in Somalia
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By Stephanie McCrummen
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, June 3, 2007; Page A18
ARUSHA, Tanzania, June 2 -- A U.S. Navy destroyer launched an attack
on foreign fighters in a remote corner of northeastern Somalia late
Friday, according to a senior U.S. official, though details of the
operation remained sketchy.
The bombardment was concentrated in and around the port town of
Bargaal, the official said Saturday, speaking on condition of
anonymity because the information is classified.
African Union Rejects U.N.-Led Force in Darfur
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Associated Press
Sunday, June 3, 2007; Page A18
UNITED NATIONS, June 2 -- The African Union has objected to a proposed
joint A.U.-U.N. peacekeeping force in Sudan's troubled Darfur region
because the United Nations would be in command, U.N. diplomats said.
The African Union wants joint control of the force, the final phase of
a three-stage U.N. plan to bolster the beleaguered 7,000-member A.U.
force in Darfur, U.N. diplomats said Friday. The diplomats spoke on
condition of anonymity because negotiations to resolve the dispute are
private.
What 'Support Our Troops' Entails
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The Bush administration has systematically shortchanged the wounded
and maimed who make it back from harm's way.
***** Cheney Rules
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Mr. Cheney has privatized the job of vice president of the United
States with his secrecy, impatience with government regulations,
backroom dealings and disdain for accountability.
Malicious Boycotts
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Who would respect the judgment of a scholar who selects or rejects
colleagues on political grounds?
Editorial Observer: The Next Big Thing in Law? The Harsh Jurisprudence
of Justice Thomas
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By ADAM COHEN
America will be a much less just place if Clarence Thomas's life
experiences and moral truth start to shape the Supreme Court's agenda
- and the nation's.
An Enemy We Can Work With
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By BARTLE BREESE BULL
Moktada al-Sadr offers the rhetoric of the dispossessed and the
actions of an heir to power.
Sex, With Consequences
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By RANDY KENNEDY
Why is it that in books, movies and on stage, jumping into bed is now
fraught with danger?
Iraq's Curse: A Thirst for Final, Crushing Victory
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By EDWARD WONG
No faction has been able to secure absolute power, and that has only
sharpened the hunger for it.
In Silicon Valley, the Crash Seems Like Just Yesterday
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/weekinreview/03rivlin.html?ref=3Dweekinre=
view
By GARY RIVLIN
A once cocksure region is displaying a deep-seated insecurity -
raising the question of whether there's really a bubble about to pop
or whether Silicon Valley is just suffering from post-traumatic
stress.
6 Billion Bits of Data About Me, Me, Me!
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/weekinreview/03harm.html?ref=3Dweekinrevi=
ew
By AMY HARMON
A DNA code cracker got his genome. Lines form now for everyone else.
Soviet-Style 'Torture' Becomes 'Interrogation'
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/weekinreview/03shane.html?ref=3Dweekinrev=
iew
By SCOTT SHANE
A 1956 article, "Communist Interrogation," shows that methods embraced
after 2001 were once considered torture that would produce false
information.
Hillary's War
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/29/magazine/03Hillary-t.html?ref=3Dmagazine&=
pagewanted=3Dall
By JEFF GERTH and DON VAN NATTA Jr.
Hillary Rodham Clinton's decisions on Iraq may point to what sort of
president she would be.
'Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom'
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/books/review/Teresi-t.html?ref=3Dreview&p=
agewanted=3Dall
By ANDY LETCHER
Reviewed by ***** TERESI
An examination of the mythology surrounding hallucinogenic mushrooms.
Fingers That Keep the Most Treasured Violins Fit
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/world/europe/03cremona.html?ref=3Dworld
By IAN FISHER
Andrea Mosconi, 75, keeps some of the world's finest violins sounding
sweet at a museum in Cremona, Italy.
Boy Born to Rebel Hostage Shocks War-Weary Colombia
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/world/americas/03colombia.html?ref=3Dworld
By SIMON ROMERO
Revelations about the existence of a 3-year-old boy named Emmanuel
have shaken a country hardened by a seemingly interminable war.
With Korea as Model, Bush Team Ponders Long Support Role in Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/washington/03assess.html?ref=3Dworld
By DAVID E. SANGER
For the first time, the Bush administration is publicly discussing
basing American troops in Iraq for years.
In a New India, an Old Industry Buoys Peasants
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/world/asia/03brick.html?ref=3Dworld&pagew=
anted=3Dall
By SOMINI SENGUPTA
Migrants who can no longer live by farming are flocking to brickyards
to fuel the Indian construction boom.
A Legal Debate in Guant=E1namo on Boy Fighters
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/us/03gitmo.html?ref=3Dworld&pagewanted=3D=
all
By WILLIAM GLABERSON
The case of the youngest detainee at Guant=E1namo Bay has implications
as large as the growing ranks of child fighters worldwide.
U=2ES. Strikes at Militants in Somalia
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/world/africa/03somalia.html?ref=3Dafrica
By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
A U.S. warship shelled a mountainous area where suspected militants
were hiding, Somali officials said.
4 More Hostages Taken in Nigeria; Rebels Seek Talks
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/world/africa/03nigeria.html?ref=3Dafrica
By LYDIA POLGREEN
Gunmen disguised as riot police officers abducted four foreign workers
from the residential compound of oil services giant Schlumberger.
Indian Shepherds Stoop to Conquer Caste System
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/world/asia/03india.html?ref=3Dasia
By AMELIA GENTLEMAN
Tension over still-rigid caste classifications, which underpin the
Indian social system, spilled over into riots, with at least 23 people
killed.
President's Push on Immigration Tests G.O.P. Base
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/washington/03immig.html?ref=3Dus&pagewant=
ed=3Dall
By JIM RUTENBERG and CARL HULSE
Some of the president's allies view him as pursuing amnesty for
lawbreakers when he should be focusing on border security.
Gay Inmates to Be Granted Conjugal Visits in California
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/us/03visit.html?ref=3Dus
By JESSE McKINLEY
A new policy in California, believed to be the first of its kind,
comes after gay and civil rights groups had threatened to sue to
permit the visits.
After Sanctions, Doctors Get Drug Company Pay
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/health/03docs.html?ref=3Dus&pagewanted=3D=
all
By GARDINER HARRIS and JANET ROBERTS
Many doctors who were sanctioned by a medical board were later paid
for research by drug makers.
Thousands Rally for Changes to Immigration Bill
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/washington/03rally.html?ref=3Dus
By NEELA BANERJEE
The demonstrators gathered to urge the Senate to adopt legislation
that would make it easier for illegal immigrants to become legal
residents of the United States.
A Detour to Iowa Showcases '08 Democrats
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/us/politics/03dems.html?ref=3Dus
By JEFF ZELENY
On the eve of a presidential debate in New Hampshire, five Democratic
candidates made a quick detour to Iowa to appeal to nearly 1,000 party
activists.
Live-Blogging the New Hampshire Debate
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/live-blogging-the-new-hampshi=
re-debate/
Eight Democrats field questions in a two-hour forum.
Debate Preview - Live From New Hampshire
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/debate-preview-live-from-new-=
hampshire/
It's almost time for the Democrats to start their debate.
Sunday Sampler Platter
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/sunday-sampler-platter-9/
The talk shows were dominated by familiar topics, Iraq, immigration
and presidential politics.
Getting Ready for Tonight's Debate
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/getting-ready-for-tonights-de=
bate/
Countdown toward tonight's debate among Democrats in New Hampshire.
In Iowa, Clinton Sits at Table 44
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/in-iowa-clinton-sits-at-table=
-44/
By Jeff Zeleny
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - At the Iowa Democratic Party's Hall of Fame
dinner here Saturday night, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton took her
seat at Table 44 in the middle of the ballroom. Coincidence? Hardly.
If elected, she would be the nation's 44th president, so the table
moniker provided a good visual for the photographers hovering around
her.
Google Keeps Tweaking Its Search Engine
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/business/yourmoney/03google.html?ref=3Dbu=
siness&pagewanted=3Dall
By SAUL HANSELL
Google's top minds offer a peek inside the algorithm that provides
search results for half a billion users.
Shattering Stereotypes About Immigrant Workers
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/business/yourmoney/03view.html?ref=3Dbusi=
ness&pagewanted=3Dall
By DANIEL ALTMAN
Some broad facts about the role of illegal immigrants in the economy
seem to be emerging, and they may upset some preconceived notions.
Genius and Misfit Aren't Synonyms, or Are They?
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/business/yourmoney/03ping.html?ref=3Dbusi=
ness
By G. PASCAL ZACHARY
In Silicon Valley, where misfits rule, rejecting the received wisdom
is commonly viewed as a path to creativity and wealth.
First, Cure Malaria. Next, Global Warming.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/business/yourmoney/03stream.html?ref=3Dbu=
siness&pagewanted=3Dall
By JASON PONTIN
Using a technology that could save the lives of millions of the poor,
Amyris Biotechnologies wants to create new biofuels that may help save
the planet.
A Critique of Obama Doubles as an Invite
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/business/yourmoney/03suits.html?ref=3Dbus=
iness
By NICK BUNKLEY
At a policy conference, the chairman of the Ford Motor Company
suggested a way for Senator Barack Obama to improve his fuel mileage.
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