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...asks the 19 squirmy first-graders in her suburban Philadelphia public school to match letters of the alphabet to the sounds they make. Sitting up front with her pinchable cheeks framed by long blond hair, Abby, 7, looks as eager as any of her classmates to blurt out an answer. But every time the teacher calls on her, Abby freezes. Her face tightens. She strains to respond. And even if an answer manages to get past her lips, her words are inaudible. She's effectively mute throughout the school day--even at recess, where the closest she will come...
...contingent in Afghanistan, placing many soldiers in daily danger. "This is not an alliance where you can either participate or not participate, where you can basically pick and choose," he says. "That doesn't work." The Afghanistan deployment, Nato's first mission outside Europe and North America, seems to answer a question that Nato member governments and their taxpayers have increasingly been asking: Is there still a role for the alliance established in 1949 as a counterbalance to the Soviet bloc? Watching the International Security Assistance Force (isaf) on the ground in the north and west of Afghanistan, under Nato...
...tireless, perhaps even annoying, and wouldn't take no for an answer-just the kind of qualities that might be required to rally the Democratic troops gearing up for the best chance the party has to take back Congress since the GOP won both the House and Senate in 1994. Even with Republicans reeling from the Jack Abramoff scandal and President Bush still down in the polls,it won?t be easy: the Democrats need to capture 15 seats to control the House and six to win the Senate, and the party has lost ground in the last two congressional...
...provision he wanted in a crime bill in 1994, he grabbed one of Clinton?s aides, backed him against a wall and said, ?You?ve got to do this.? (It worked.) On the Senate Judiciary Committee, his colleagues occasionally tell him to stop talking so witnesses can actually answer his questions...
...White House press secretary Scott McClellan was asked during both of his briefings Tuesday whether Bush might seek additional wiretapping authority from Congress for what the President has rechristened the "terrorist surveillance program", and he did not answer directly. Asked whether Bush would seek "more legal permission from Congress to spy on Americans without a warrant," McClellan-using a phrase that the administration is now emphasizing-called it "a limited, targeted program," and said that the White House realizes the need to give a "clearer picture of where things are with the American people" leading up to Congressional hearings that...