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At a breakfast with reporters on Tuesday morning, Baucus predicted that his committee could have legislation on the Senate floor as early as June, adding, "The conversation is going great guns." Among the ideas the six-term Montana Senator said he is willing to consider is one that has significant...
In 2002, upon his election, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe made it a priority to secure Cartagena's walls. Emulating London, Uribe installed a 137-camera surveillance system that covers all of the Old Town and tourist areas. Murders dropped from 66 in 2002 to just 23 last year, 10 fewer...
Easier said than done, however, because the only basis for bringing Syria into the U.S.-led camp is a peace agreement with Israel, and the Israeli public and leaders appear to be in no mood to give up the Golan Heights. The "land for peace" paradigm of the Oslo accords...
•Sebelius was elected governor of Kansas - a state in which registered Republicans outnumber Democrats by a nearly 2-to-1 margin - in 2002. After a first term in which she helped boost education spending while deftly paring a $1.1 billion budget deficit, she won re-election four years later...
The deaths could rip the country apart along tribal lines. Na Wai came from the large Balante tribe, whose members fought in the war of independence against Portugal in 1974, and who have dominated the military ever since. Vieira came from the far smaller Pepel tribe. Soldiers drove Vieira from...