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...She’s never played in a Beanpot before,” King said. “She’s never experienced any of this, and I thought she really did come up with some big saves for us, especially in that first period, to get our kids into the game...
...Democrats in Washington are struggling to find the right way to push back against those numbers. "The Administration needs to get out and make their case on this," says a top Democratic Senate aide. "They don't have a good answer right now. They have to find another venue [for the KSM trial], and until then it's hard to push back." Senate majority leader Harry Reid said on Tuesday that "the Bush Administration prosecuted hundreds of these terrorists [in civilian courts, and] 340 of them are in prison right now." He said the President would have to decide "whether...
...constant reminder of Obama's reluctance to fully repudiate Bush's conduct of the war on terrorism. "Gates is an agent of change within his own empire and not within the broader national-security construct. That is the risk Obama ran. He covered his flank but didn't get change," says a Defense policy adviser. White House staffers are no doubt uneasy about their dependency on this old Cold War hawk - as adaptable as he may be - which probably explains why none of them wanted to speak for this profile...
...Translation: The CBO may not always be accurate, but it's as close as Washington is ever likely to get...
...when he fired the military officer overseeing the Pentagon's new F-35 stealth-fighter-jet program for cost overruns and technical failures and punished Lockheed Martin by withholding $615 million in fees. Lots of defense contractors and program managers underachieve, yet they almost always get away with it. Not under Gates...