Posts by Linda Gasparello:
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Bush’s Legislative Sidestep Is Quite Mechanical
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President Bush has been criticized for the number of signing statements—more than 750 between 2001 and 2007–he has added to laws passed by Congress. A new review of these signing statements by Neil Kinkopf, associate professor of law at Georgia State University College of Law, shows that “they are treated in a mechanical fashion, with [...]
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A Homeric Odyssey Circa 2007
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BODRUM, Turkey — Gulet is pronounced the way it is written. This seems to bother visitors who come to cruise the Aegean coast on these traditional Turkish motorsailers. Actually, one of the nice things about Turkey is that most words are pronounced as they are written–like Bodrum, the southeastern harbor town which is a center [...]
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Rove Goes West of Eden
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He says President Bush makes the White House “a wonderful place to work.” He plans to “kibitz” with Bush on policy issues from “the outside.” He wants to write a book, but he has not kept a diary. He compares the congressional investigations and a subpoena issued to him to Captain Ahab’s quest for Moby [...]
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The British Way of Leaving
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Political pressure is mounting in Washington for a significant Iraq pullout by 2009. Under similar pressure, London withdrew from a much larger and older project in August 1947. Indeed, Ian Jack wrote in The Guardian, the British exited India “with a speed and directness that alarmed many Indians and with a purpose that stemmed in [...]
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Reporter’s Notebook
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Lobster Summit President Bush was a goofy mood moments before Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived at the Bush family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine. The president joined his mom and his wife by the side door of the mansion on Walker’s Point, but he had come out prematurely. First lady Laura Bush walked [...]
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