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...State Condoleezza Rice told journalists as her plane crossed Iraqi airspace after a five-day swing through the Middle East, "but whenever someone tries to tear them apart, [Iraqis] find a way to get back together." Over the weekend, President George W. Bush spent an hour on seven phone calls to Iraqi leaders, expressing condolences, thanking them for their appeals for calm and urging them to continue working to form a new government. In private, U.S. officials sounded guarded. "This is plainly a test for the Iraqi government," says a well-placed national-security official. "What the outcome will...
...place, maybe those funds really will start getting there. Meanwhile, the street has been rebuilding itself without them. Noah Chiasson, 58, lives in Lakeview along the rim of Lake Pontchartrain. He and his wife bunk on the undamaged second floor of their house. They have no gas, no phone, no TV, no postal service. But they're O.K. With few lighted houses around him, it gets so dark after sundown that it's possible again to see stars in the nighttime sky. "But every night I look out the window now, there are less stars," he says. He knows...
...Staff of the ethics committee-which is only beginning to get up and running after a partisan deadlock that's lasted for 13 months-did not return phone calls Friday for comment. Jan Baran, an attorney who has often represented elected officials caught in ethics cases, said Justice may be ?saber rattling? since the ethics panels cover congressional rules and not criminal offenses, which are Justice's province alone. But if Justice is really just trying to warn Congress to crack down on sleazy conduct, ?I think they're correct.... Not only the Department of Justice, but I think...
...House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King confirmed in a phone interview early Saturday afternoon to TIME that officials were close to a deal involving the Congressional leadership, the White House and the Dubai company. The agreement would call for a 45-day ?CFIUS-plus investigation,? King said, referring to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, a Treasury Department-run interagency panel that probes proposed acquisitions...
...reminded of the comment made by William F. Buckley that he would rather “be governed by the first one hundred names in the Boston phone book than by the Harvard Faculty.” Amen and veritas...