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... Congress riding an anti-Iraq/anti-Bush wave. However, Duckworth came up short in that election against Republican Peter Roskam, who is serving his third term representing the 6th Congressional District of Illinois. Now that the Illinois legislature has redrawn its congressional maps based on the 2010 Census numbers, the ...
PAUL SOLMAN: Holtz-Eakin says past data are clear: Extending benefits provides a perverse disincentive to not work. DOUGLAS HOLTZ-EAKIN: Eventually, it hurts you. People search less vigorously. They stay unemployed longer. Their skills deteriorate. The job they ultimately take pays less well than one they might have taken ...
On Monday's NewsHour, Tom Goldstein of SCOTUSblog and other legal experts will review the highlights of the just-completed Supreme Court term. Here on the Rundown, Goldstein and his legal team at SCOTUSblog agreed to break down the most important cases of the term, and summarize some key issues ...
... issue of the deficit, which is the symbolic issue in the country's minds that, if they can't even take care of the long-term fiscal situation, that's a sign of self-indulgence and corruption. And we have to take care of that issue. And I wish he ...
JIM LEHRER: Two searches are underway in London, four days after the bombings: The search for the perpetrators and the search for those still missing. We begin our coverage with a report from Simon Israel of Independent Television News. SIMON ISRAEL: "Do not expect any quick breakthroughs in the ...
... just have two categories: dead or unaccounted for, without declaring them officially missing. Why not? MAURA HARTY: In fact, I would not myself use the term unaccounted for per se. What we're much more comfortable using because it is in fact the reality that we're facing is that ...
... those areas during and after the fighting, and so far have found no weapons. By July 2003, the president and his advisors were using the term "weapons program" instead of "weapons." And they used the past tense, saying Iraq had a weapons program. PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: I'm confident ...
... a complex of computers, thousands of them in many locations, using specially developed software, which has gathered and indexed some three billion Web pages. A search begins at a user's computer, then on to Google's search engine. The search program matches words in the query to the same ...
... created states or governments. So you have to reverse this process. But you cannot do it, you know, in a short time. It's long term. Maybe at some point you have to buy out all these militias and create an army for the state, an army, that would not ...
... It’s not a great experience, but it’s, you know, a shared experience and it brings people together,” she said. Hong Kong expat recounts search for safety Agnes Chen Pun, a Hong Kong expatriate who moved to Dubai with her husband and their 1 1/2-year-old last ...
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