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…oes in fact survive, Iran would become increasingly emboldened, with potentially disastrous consequences for the United States and its allies and interests in the Middle East. Denuding U.S. forces in the region to enable a pivot to Asia 1s also risky. Nowhere else in the world i...

…! You're up late or you're not so east of my SF location! David PS How to trade the Trump-GOP demolition of the welfare state, erratic elevation of risks of trade disruptions and war? Has anyone from the rational center or left given thought to how to respond to a national emerge...

…xpand the rights of crime victims. With respect to the right to speak in particular, one of the CVRA's primary sponsors stated: "this section would fail in its intent if courts determined that written, rather than oral communication, could generally satisfy this right." 43° Yet,...

…een cast off, or— possibly another result of Trump never really intending to be president—never really figured into the state of being president. On the other hand, constant hysteria did have one unintended political virtue. If every new event canceled out every other event, lik...

…s an advisor to a White House initiative that traveled the country meeting with leaders in large spaces in a network of state and community colleges. As a former theater producer, | was impressed with the availability and quality of these spaces. In theater — and other kinds of s...

… first spell as Prime Minister in the 1970s, it was over a violation of the Jewish Sabbath. It turned out that Israel’s state electric company had been transporting a huge steam- condensation machine from the manufacturing site near Haifa to a power plant in Ashdod. The unit was...

… said. Shimon was now nearly 73. He’d had a life in our country’s politics, and in Labor, stretching back to before the state, when he’d been a favored protégé of Ben-Gurion. Walking away was going to be hard. I was 295 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011766

… prodding, the boys agreed. On a summer visiting day in July of 1978, the three Tison brothers arrived at the Florence State Prison with their perennial picnic basket. Beneath the fried chicken were pistols and shotguns. The boys had arranged for a car to be parked in the lot o...

…mary international law that is “(1) universal and obligatory, (2) specific and definable, and (3) of mutual concern [to States.]” Abdullahi v. Pfizer, Inc., 562 F.3d 163, 177 (2d Cir. 2009), cert. denied, 130 S. Ct. 3541 (2010). As the district court recognized, SPA233 (Terrorist...

…ome increasingly evident to the wider foreign policy and national security team, was the family’s pick for secretary of state after Rex Tillerson’s inevitable resignation. (Likewise, in this shuffle, Dina Powell would replace Haley at the UN.) The president had been spending a n...

… fund of private-equity funds. Died Oct. 18 of cancer. Tom Foley, 84. He was a Democratic congressman from Washington State from 1964 to 1994 and rose to speaker of the House. Died Oct. 18 of pneumonia following a series of strokes. Sally Dawson, 39. A British-born banker who...

… children around the world. “Nobbs” whisked me off to the British Film Reception hosted by Jeremy Hunt, UK Secretary of State for Culture and Olympics and the British Consul-General Dame Barbara Hay, in her Hancock Park residence. Upon introduction, I blurted out that my friend L...

…on to continue any proceeding. If the court grants a motion to continue over the objection of a victim, the court shall state its reasons in the record. 4%? The Advisory Committee proposed no change to this Rule. 444 Discussion: Victims have speedy trial rights under the CVRA,...

…ies of airplanes and automobiles, or the creation of worldly wonders, from the Hanging Gardens of Babylon to the Empire State Building and the Golden Gate Bridge. At first, I got many of the answers from my father. On Saturdays, we would walk around the kibbutz as I plied him wi...

… useful pretext to bombing key nuclear facilities that would set the Iranian program back years or more.” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo = “Pompeo wants the band back together. He doesn’t believe the United States can credibly induce the Iranians towards a more constructive pos...