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Obama also needs to stand up to U.S. conservatives who are hijacking the Honduras issue by claiming the coup was nothing of the sort. Republicans have protested Obama's position by blocking his appointments to top diplomatic posts. Because Zelaya had broken the law by trying to end Honduras' presidential term limit, they argue, the Honduran military did the right thing by saving the country from the ousted leader and the growing influence of his ally, Chávez. "By calling this a coup," said Florida Representative Connie Mack, "the Obama Administration now stands with the likes...
...accidents occurred on July 5, when two monorails collided at the Magic Kingdom's main station at closing time, killing driver Austin Wuennenberg, who friends say was working his dream job. Next, on Aug. 10, actor Mark Priest died in a hospital where he was being treated for a broken vertebra in his neck and other injuries from a fall that took place four days earlier during a mock sword fight at Captain Jack's Pirate Tutorial audience-participation show. According to his friend Jeffrey Breslauer, Priest - just before he died - said he was performing the sword fight...
...deaths of Afghans in errant air strikes and night raids. (Insurgents have been responsible for 60% of civilian deaths so far this year, according to U.N. figures.) If there is lackluster turnout in Kandahar, he says, it really means that people are "fed up with a government that has broken too many promises." (See pictures of the battle against the Taliban...
...anything to improve who they are as human beings. That should scare us. And in that 10,000 are some very violent people that left a lockup unit like Pelican Bay [to go] right back to the streets - that should scare us. What should scare us is our broken policy and not the fact that 40,000 more are going to come out because we should be scared already...
...same day, the ship passed through the English Channel, communicating its position and speed to the British coast guard as dictated by standard procedure, with no mention of any trouble. The ship's Automatic Identification System, which relays the ship's position to authorities, was either switched off or broken. According to CNN, three days later, Swedish police phoned the ship and spoke to someone they believed to be the captain. When the ship failed to make its scheduled arrival in Algeria on Aug. 4, the alarm was raised. (Read "Girding for the Pirates' Revenge...