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...choose and vet the chaplains that minister to the military's estimated 4,000 Muslims. In the meantime, Yee must be charged under the military code within 120 days of his arrest or be released. Whether Yee and al-Halabi knew each other and collaborated in a spy ring or are simply fellow Muslims whose devoutness was mistaken for betrayal is the next chapter in a spy story that is still being written. --Reported by Simon Crittle/New York, Eli Sanders/Olympia, Maggie Sieger/Chicago and Mark Thompson/Washington
...have no idea. You tell me. Why don't you ring up the President...
That line has the faint ring of a lyric in a sentimental country-music ballad--fitting for Gilley, 67, who has sung more than his fair share. Country-music fans remember him for his 17 No. 1 country hits and for inspiring the urban-cowboy trend in the 1980s--you may recall Debra Winger riding a mechanical bull at "Gilley's" in the 1980 movie Urban Cowboy. These days Gilley is still pumping out music (Invitation Only was released in May), playing gigs (about 225 concerts a year) and opening clubs (he licensed his name to a Gilley's that...
...vital as physical reconstruction. And both require help from the rest of the world. The lesson for America is harsh but essential: Even the mightiest nation on earth can't go it alone. The Europeans: they have been bitten by another reality, their irreducible weakness in the great-power ring where America is the last man standing. Strong enough to deny the U.S. a war resolution in the Security Council in March, France and Germany were too puny to stop the war itself. Their fabled "axis" has begun to creak; unlike French President Jacques Chirac, Schröder carefully refrained...
Still, all hope is not lost. The day after the WUSA folded, the Boston Globe quoted Chairman of the WUSA Board of Governors John Hendricks as saying, “There is a glimmer of hope that during the next few months the phones will ring. It might be a communications company, a sports apparel company, a beverage company who might respond, and they might say, `Keep this alive. Is there a way to resurrect...