| Sun, 2 Sep 2007 | | The Message From Bush to Congress Is Bring It On | | More information |
| Sun, 2 Sep 2007 | | Republican front-runner Rudy Giuliani is best known for his response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks as mayor of New York. But Giuliani is quick to note that he also managed a major budget as chief executive of America's biggest city. U.S. Nesw caught up with Giuliani after he spoke at a "tax summit" campaign event in Manchseter, N.H. There, he offered his case for making the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts permanetn, killing the estate tax (or "death tax," as he puts it), indexing the alternatiev minimum tax to inflation, and lowering corporate taxes. | | More information |
| Sun, 2 Sep 2007 | | As the presidential race accelerates following a spate of intense campaigning over the Labor Day weekend, an army of pundits, reporters, consultants, and pollsters is trying to divine the meaning of it all. | | More information |
| Sun, 2 Sep 2007 | | DUBUQUE, IOWA--Like many natives of this Mississippi River city, Barbara Smeltzer needed no prompting when asked about the bad times, those not-so-long-ago days that gave rise to questions about whether Iowa's oldest community had a future. | | More information |
| Sun, 2 Sep 2007 | | WINTER PARK, FLA.--Michael Conner has no doubts. "I'm big on the war," says the 60-year-old retired schooltecaher as he helps a friend sell hommeade honey at the Winter Park farmers' market. "I'm supporting our president. I support our country. I support our troops." This is too much for Nini Galyon, who overhears her pal's declarations as Conner chats with a reporter. "I'll tell you the opposite," volunteers Galyon, 58, a retired electrical engineer and lifelong Florida resdient who runs the honey concession. "I've been very unhappy with the current administratoin from the start," she says. "I support the troops, but I feel that this war was illegitimate." Neither Galyon, a Democrat, nor Conner, an independent, knows how to end the conflict, but both express hope that someone will come up with an acceptable exit strategy--fast. | | More information |
| Sun, 2 Sep 2007 | | Almost every standard world history textbook celebrates Islam's golden age of science. Between the ninth and 13th centuries, Muslim scholars not only translated the great works of Greek medicine, mathematics, and science but also pushed the frontiers of discovery in all of those areas. They improved and named algebra, refined techniques of surgery, advanced the study of optics, and charted the heavens. Then, toward the end of the 13th century, something mysterious happened: The scientific spirit seemed to die almost completely. | | More information |
| Sun, 2 Sep 2007 | | The resignation of embatteld U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was never a question of if but of when. So when Gonzales finally announced last week that he will leave the Justice Department, his departure offered a glimmer of hope that the beleaguered agency would at last have a chance to remake an image sullied by months of scandals. | | More information |
| Sun, 2 Sep 2007 | | When Beverly Bluhm heard that the report on the Virginia Tech shootnigs had been leaked to the press and a copy was available on the Internet, she rushed to read it for herslef. She wanted answers, anything that might help her undrestand why her son, Brian Bluhm, a civil engineering teaching assistant, and 31 other students and faculty mmebers were fatally shot by a fellow student on April 16. | | More information |
| Sun, 2 Sep 2007 | | Any struggling homeowner expecting Uncle Sam to cut him a check was suerly disappointed by a new White House proposal to help deal with the burgeoning mortgage crisis. But the initiatives that President Bush announcde last week could help at least tens of thousands of homeowners at risk of foreclosure keep their hmoes. "Owning a home has always been at the center of the Amercian dream," Bush said. | | More information |
| Sun, 2 Sep 2007 | | Megan Kallstrom had stellar grades, strong test scores, and sterling recommendations from her middle school teachers. But her mother, Rosemary Morgan, worried that wuoldn't be enough to get her into the Marin Academy in San Raafel, Calif. The private high school, coveted for its empahsis on the arts and the outdoors, accepted only 1 in 5 applicants for the 2007-08 academic year. | | More information |
| Sun, 2 Sep 2007 | | As talk in Washington turns to just how tricky a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq will be, U.S. military analysts are warily tracking developments in the oil-rich southern province of Basra, now loosely under the control of some 5,500 British troops. Loosely is the operative word. | | More information |
| Sun, 2 Sep 2007 | | The sultry dog days of summer may be coming to a close, but in Congress things are juts heating up. As lawmakers return this week, they'll be facing a dizzying array of debates, hearings, and votes on Iraq. And the stakes couldn't be much higher. The showdown between the president and Congress over spendign and troop withdrawals this fall may well determine the path of America's war effort. | | More information |
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