'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
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The Pentagon is mulling a $150 million overhaul of the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, including building a new dining hall, hospital and barracks for the guards.
The English have always had trouble deciding just how far the human race extends beyond their own borders. Thus, after a terrorist bomb took the lives of a pair of foreign visitors, Margaret Thatcher angrily declared, "The IRA are indiscriminately killing men, women and children and now they have killed two Australians."
It was another week at war in Afghanistan, another string of U.S. casualties and another collective shrug by a nation weary of a faraway conflict whose hallmark is its grinding inconclusiveness.
The winning dog at New York City's Westminster Dog Show will have his day _ or his steak _ after all.
A day after stepping down as CIA director, Leon Panetta was sworn in Friday as secretary of defense. He began settling into the job by telling members of the military and their families they are "at the top of my agenda."
The man authorities call the "East Coast Rapist," who terrorized random women up and down the Eastern Seaboard for more than a decade, faced a judge Monday in the first of what is likely to be numerous sex-assault cases as investigators from Rhode Island to Virginia mix science and shoe leather to bring charges in one of the most terrifying crime sprees in recent history.
"[We] had great optimism that Guantanamo would be closed," Gen. John Kelly, the commander of the U.S. Southern Command, said of the hunger strikes at a hearing before the House Armed Services Committee. "They were devastated, apparently."
He has said nothing about it.
