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Holder investigating CIA interrogations
The Swampby Greg Miller and Josh Meyer U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. is poised to appoint a criminal prosecutor to investigate alleged CIA abuses committed during the interrogation of terrorism suspects, current and former U.S. government officials said. A......Tags: Punishment, Prisons, Central Intelligence Agency, Crimes, Washington (U.S. state)
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Biden in Baghdad: 'High-level focus'
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated at 1:20 pm EDT Vice President Joe Biden made a surprise landing in Baghdad today to meet with Iraqi leaders and U.S. military troops. A military C-17 transport carrying the vice president landed at Baghdad......Tags: Air and Space Accidents, Trips and Vacations, Heads of State, National Government, Government
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How low can FAU go? A satirical look ahead
The stomp on Jesus controversy. The Owlcatraz stadium/GEO Group sponsorship controversy. The Sandy Hook massacre-doubting-professor controversy. Think things can't get any worse at Florida Atlantic University? Here's how: An exclusive sneak peek at...
Tags: Carrot Top, Teaching and Learning, Rick Scott, Teachers, Government
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At Lookingglass, a tiger tale set in Iraq
Can a talking Bengal tiger in the Baghdad zoo serve as both a narrator and a ghost? That might sound like a bizarre question, but it comes to mind presently at the Lookingglass Theatre. The titular big cat in Rajiv Joseph's distinctive drama “...
Tags: Robin Williams, Water Supply, Arts and Culture, Iraq, Water Tower
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Iraqi man, once marked for death, reunited with family at LVIA
Have you ever tried to put yourself in someone else's head, imagining what he's thinking, what he's feeling? That's what I found myself doing late Tuesday night as Iraqi refugee Abbas Hameed Khalaf paced the sidewalk outside Lehigh Valley International...
Tags: U.S. Embassy, Social Services, Charlie Dent, Washington, DC, Social Issues
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Recommendation Letter
Here is a portion of the Aug. 10 letter, slightly abridged and edited, written to U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent by Will Miller, then Catholic Charities refugee resettlement director, to urge Dent's support for helping getting Abbas Hameed Khalaf's family out...Tags: U.S. Embassy, Iraq, Refugee, Politics, Religion and Belief
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McManus: A smaller, smarter military
President Obama has called a halt to the decade-long rise in defense spending that began after Sept. 11, and has proposed shrinking the Army and Marine Corps by about 14%. Congressional Republicans (not to mention Mitt Romney) say that would be...
Tags: Joint Chiefs of Staff, West Point, U.S. Army, Budgets and Budgeting, Sociology
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Tags: Weaponry, Raytheon Company, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Government, Elections
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From Iraq to the Happiest Place on Earth
The fireworks at Disneyland had ended. It was past closing time and the crowds were pouring out the gates, but we lingered.
Layla Alshawi, the 63-year-old mother of our friends, didn't want to leave. She hugged a light pole, joking that we would have...Tags: Amusement and Theme Parks, Sleeping Beauty (movie), Stress, Tourism and Leisure Industry, Disneyland Park
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McManus: An elusive victory in Iraq
With the final headlong withdrawal this month of U.S. troops from Iraq, President Obama fulfilled a campaign promise to end the war. But was the nearly nine-year mission a success?
Iraq is still struggling even to ensure its own security. Its air force...Tags: West Point, Civil Unrest, U.S. Army, Government, Elections
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The war in Iraq: Embedded with the U.S. Military
FrameworkAfter returning from assignment in Afghanistan in 2003, Times photojournalist Rick Loomis asked to be sent out in the first wave of journalists to cover the Invasion of Iraq. He spent several weeks traveling in the back of a canvas topped Humvee with U.S.... -
Baghdad in photos, then and now
FrameworkTo mark the 10-year anniversary of the war in Iraq, Associated Press photographer Maya Alleruzzo returned to Baghdad with printed photographs that she and colleagues had taken. Alleruzzo wrote this about the project: We went through the archive to look...
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