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...profile FARC hostage of all, former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt - a French-Colombian whose six-year-long captivity had become a cause célèbre in Europe - as well as three American defense contractors who had been held for more than five years, one of the longest U.S. hostage ordeals ever. Surrounded by his top military brass, Colombian Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos said, "They were rescued safe and sound...
...votes," says Richard Pildes, professor of constitutional law at New York University School of Law. "With its new blood the court is still developing new patterns of communication and cooperation." (Until Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Samuel Alito came along, the court had the longest-serving body of the same nine people in Supreme Court history.) Nevertheless, even with fewer nail-biting decisions handed down this term, Justice Kennedy has continued to play a dominant role - swing voter or not - preventing Roberts and fellow conservatives from dominating the court's decisions...
...host Wayne Campbell, and once or twice as Linda Richman. Austin Powers occasionally flashed that someone-stop-me grin through his misshapen English teeth. (Dieter the German performance artist and Shrek, not so much.) The Cat in the Hat was nothing but irritating-ingratiating impishness. And for the longest time - it's nearly two decades since he joined SNL - when Myers smiled, audiences smiled back. They were his co-conspirators in preadolescent aggression...
...longest-serving host of the longest-running program in the history of television, he was an institution in both news and politics for more than two decades. Tim was a tough and hardworking newsman. He was always well-informed and thorough in his interviews. And he was as gregarious off the set as he was prepared on it." - President Bush...
...McCain, it should be noted, was for years an immigration moderate who, coming from Arizona, understood that the U.S. must do something about the 13 million illegal immigrants already inside the border. He was by far his party's strongest and longest backer of Bush's approach to immigration until, under pressure in a crowded G.O.P. presidential primary race, he joined the fence-'em-out-first crowd...