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...Your main character, Corey Grace, is a former POW who's a Republican Senator and a presidential candidate. That sounds familiar...
Ragalie’s absence from the field has left Randall S. Sarafa ’09, the current chair of the UC’s Finance Committee, to take the mantle as Sundquist’s main potential opponent on the council. Sarafa has, in the past, worked with Sundquist on advocacy projects including universal keycard access to freshman dormitories...
Espionage is a secretive business, but in recent years a little light has penetrated the murk surrounding the U.K.'s two main security agencies. The Security Service (better known as MI5 and tasked with internal security), and its sister organization, the Secret Intelligence Service (also called MI6 and concerned with external intelligence), have set up their own websites and now advertise openly for new recruits. But this new transparency has strict limits. Much of the agencies' work is covert and British spymasters seldom venture into the full glare of public attention...
...While the Turks drive their tanks through Barmani in broad daylight once a week, the PKK guerillas are more elusive. Although the Turkish army claims that the PKK is using northern Iraq as a staging ground for attacks inside Turkey, the PKK's main bases are in the Qandil mountains, near the border with Iran and beyond the easy reach of a large Turkish force. The few PKK bases near the Turkish border are also difficult to reach, located long distances on single-track dirt roads high in classic insurgency country. One camp that's home to some 300 fighters...
Some observers in the U.S. and Pakistan are still holding out the possibility that Musharraf's main reason for imposing martial law was to rid himself of his bête noir, the "literalist" Supreme Court led by chief justice Iftikar Chaudhry, who is now under house arrest. That tribunal not only posed a danger to the validity of Musharraf's election as president in early October but also to the U.S. deal forged with opposition leader Benazir Bhutto that allowed her to return to Pakistan from exile as a symbol of resurgent democracy. With the persnickety high court "cleansed...