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...square and squirming, by turns awkward, craven and hilarious in his four-day hegira from white-bread Presbyterianism to the admission that his mother was a Sephardic Jew, from the famed Lumbroso family. By week's end, Allen-the least likely Semite in Christendom-was sitting there stunned as cnn's Wolf Blitzer rattled off the list of brilliant Lumbroso ancestors: doctors, historians, the chief rabbi of Tunis! The Senator argued that his mother had been traumatized by the Nazis; her father had been pulled from his home in the middle of the night and sent to a concentration camp...
Heads of state are sometimes too candid for their own good. But rarely do two of them blurt out what they're really thinking almost simultaneously, as George Bush and Pervez Musharraf did this week - and on a topic as touchy as U.S.-Pakistani cooperation against terrorism. Asked by CNN on Wednesday if he'd order U.S. military operations inside Pakistan to capture Osama bin Laden if there was solid intelligence on his location, Bush said "absolutely." The next day CBS released portions of a 60 Minutes interview with Musharraf, to be aired Sunday, in which he claims that...
...Welcome to democracy, Thai style. Late on Tuesday evening, with satellite feeds of BBC and CNN intermittently jammed, a military spokesman announced on Thai TV that the armed forces, under the command of Army Chief Gen. Sondhi Boonyaratkalin, had taken over Bangkok and surrounding areas and was declaring martial law. The spokesman blamed the military's extreme measures on what he termed corrupt practices by Thaksin, alleging that the Prime Minister had hampered the workings of both parliament and the courts. Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, a constitutional monarch, was reaffirmed as head of state, while the spokesman promised that...
...media brought a palpable sense of outrage with the coverage from the very beginning," said Woods. "If you looked at NPR, CNN and scattered sightings of the networks and newspapers, where they did well was to recognize the size of the story and the need to stay with...
...There was planning discussion, both by the air traffic controllers and the crew, conversations with each other about using Runway 22 for departure," National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) member Deborah Hersman said Monday on CNN. "We do know from the information that we have obtained on scene, gathered evidence, documentation and from the flight data recorder, that the runway that the crew used was Runway 26." The two runways at the Lexington airport cross in an X pattern. To get from the terminal to the head of Runway 22, the airport's 7,000-ft.-long main strip, the plane...