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BIORobert Kuttner: Selective Lion
Co-Founder and Co-Editor of The American
Prospect
All week, Obama demonstrated his great
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aligning himself with a constitutional treatment of
detainees wherever they are ultimately housed.
And though he criticized financial excess in general
terms and had some good things to say aboutcredit card abuses, he has not yet thrown the full
weight of his office behind comprehensive financialreform.
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BIOObama and the Left
Gara LaMarche , 05.24.2009
President and CEO of The Atlantic
Philanthropies
Obama has genuine real-world issues
to balance, and I have no reason to
believe he has not arrived at these few
controversial decisions genuinely and
in a typically thoughtful and engaged
manner.
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BIOFormer Senior Interrogator
in Iraq Dissects Cheney's Liesand Distortions
Matthew Alexander , 05.24.2009
Led the interrogations that found Zarqawi;
author of "How to Break a Terrorist"
Our greatest success in this conflict
was achieved without torture or
abuse. My interrogation team found
Abu Musab Al Zarqawi using
relationship-building approaches and
non-coercive law enforcement
techniques.
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BIOI Knew Pussy Galore. Pussy
Galore Was a Friend of Mine.And You, Nancy Pelosi, Are
No Pussy Galore
Chris Kelly , 05.24.2009
Writer, Real Time with Bill Maher
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BIOAid Ironies
Jeffrey Sachs , 05.24.2009
Director of the Earth Institute, Economics
Professor, Columbia University
Rich people have an uncanny ability
to oppose aid for everybody but
themselves.
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BIOWhat Did Powell Know, and
Why Isn't He Subjected to thePelosi Treatment?
Harry Shearer , 05.24.2009
Actor, author, director, satirist, musician,
radio host, playwright, multi-media artist
Has Washington already forgiven
and/or forgotten Powell's role in
making the final "close" on the sale ofthe Iraq War? In D.C., apparently,
Powell's credibility has experienced
seamless reweaving.
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BIOCheney Urges Obama to
Name Bitter Psycho to Bench
Andy Borowitz , 05.24.2009
BorowitzReport.com
Former Vice President Dick Cheney
weighed in today on President
Obama's impending choice to replace
Justice David Souter on the U.S.
Supreme Court, urging the President
to name a bitter psycho to the bench.
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Palin Once Asked John Coale
To Check Veracity Of PhoneCall From Bill Clinton
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Partner's Father
Paul Raushenbush , 05.24.2009
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Revival, Associate Dean of Religious Life atPrinceton
Although plagued by racial
segregation, the armed forces brought
people of every background togetherand made plain our common identity
as Americans. Today, only openly gay
and lesbian people are restricted from
this opportunity.
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BIOThis Week in Magazines : The
"Test Madness" of Our
Medical Lives
James Warren , 05.24.2009
Former managing editor and Washington
bureau chief of the Chicago Tribune
If President Obama truly wants to
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system, perhaps somebody shouldread June 8 Forbes and its concise
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BIOCannes 2009 Day Twelve:
Haneke Triumphs With Top
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Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service
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Guantanamo who cannot be
prosecuted yet who pose a clear
danger to the American people"? This
question cuts to the very heart of the
concept of preventive detention.
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Breaking Oil’s Grip on Our Future'
Gensler will have to move away from
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of recent years, while defendingcommodity futures trading against
accusations of undue influence.
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Witch Burning, & Other Fun
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BIOCongressional Duck andCover
Stanley Kutler , 05.24.2009
E. Gordon Fox Emeritus Professor of U.S.
Institutions, University of Wisconsin
For the past twenty-five years
Congress has made a joke of the
system, as it has trivialized and
mocked any meaningful
representation in the sense that the
makers of the Constitution framed it.
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BIOMemorial Day 2009 - A Look
at Women in the Military
Marcia G. Yerman , 05.23.2009
Hopefully, in between the barbecues
and the parades, our citizens will
reflect on both the physical and
emotional challenges that our service
women have -- and continue -- toface.
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BIODick Cheney -- The
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Lincoln Mitchell , 05.23.2009
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BIOFor Memorial Day: How KBR
Killed U.S. Soldiers
Greg Mitchell , 05.24.2009
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It was good to see an editorial in the
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BIOCannes 2009: A Return to
Normalcy
Vivian Norris de Montaigu ,
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This did not feel like an "off" year, but
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aligning himself with a constitutional treatment of
detainees wherever they are ultimately housed.
And though he criticized financial excess in general
terms and had some good things to say aboutcredit card abuses, he has not yet thrown the full
weight of his office behind comprehensive financialreform.
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Gara LaMarche , 05.24.2009
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Obama has genuine real-world issues
to balance, and I have no reason to
believe he has not arrived at these few
controversial decisions genuinely and
in a typically thoughtful and engaged
manner.
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BIOFormer Senior Interrogator
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Matthew Alexander , 05.24.2009
Led the interrogations that found Zarqawi;
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Our greatest success in this conflict
was achieved without torture or
abuse. My interrogation team found
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relationship-building approaches and
non-coercive law enforcement
techniques.
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Although plagued by racial
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people of every background togetherand made plain our common identity
as Americans. Today, only openly gay
and lesbian people are restricted from
this opportunity.
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If President Obama truly wants to
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Congress has made a joke of the
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and the parades, our citizens will
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BIOFor Memorial Day: How KBR
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Greg Mitchell , 05.24.2009
Author, 'Why Obama Won'
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