The defense secretary?s arguments were rejected after Alberto R. Gonzales and other lawyers expressed strong objections to moving detainees to the U.S.
Toilet paper seems like an odd inspiration for a company, but it's what started Tamara Monsoon on the path to becoming an entrepreneurial mom. Since then she's been busy teaching other moms about the path from idea to product. In May, Monsoon comes out with her second book about insights she's gleaned from other successful moms who have started their own companies. It's a business book at heart, says Monsoon, but she also wanted to inspire other moms to take the leap from babies to balance sheets.
Although the breast cancer diagnosed and treated more than two years ago in Elizabeth Edwards has spread and can no longer be eradicated completely, its progression can often be managed, much as is done with other chronic diseases.
During a press conference in the Green Zone in Baghdad with Iraqi Prime Minsiter Nouri al-Maliki and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, a mortar attack struck within 50 yards of them, shaking the room violently. While al-Maliki remained unfazed, Ki-moon appeared uneasy for the remainder of the conference.
AP - On the eve of a critical vote, House Democrats labored Thursday to lock down a majority behind a Sept. 1, 2008, deadline for the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq, the sternest test yet for a determined new majority eager to challenge President Bush.
AP - John and Elizabeth Edwards stood side-by-side in the North Carolina sunshine to announce that her cancer was back and that his run for the presidency would go forward at full speed. It was a sympathetic tableau that drew an immediate outpouring of well wishes from people of all political persuasions.
AP - Authorities said Thursday that Pakistan's cricket coach was strangled in his hotel room the day after his team suffered a humiliating World Cup loss — a murder that has shocked the proper world of cricket.
Pakistani cricket Coach Bob Woolmer died of "manual strangulation," Jamaican police commissioner Lucius Thomas said Thursday. "We are now treating this as a case of murder," he said. Woolmer was found dead in his hotel room the day after his team sensationally lost to underdogs Ireland in the Cricket World Cup.
The wife of presidential candidate John Edwards is fighting a second bout of cancer but his campaign will continue. "We have no intentions of cowering in the corner," he said. Elizabeth Edwards said her expectations for the future were unchanged.
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