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Fast Forward Despite Weak Senate Performance, Hagel May Yet Win Pentagon Post
Chuck Hagel’s cautious testimony may not have won converts during his contentious nomination hearing for U.S. defense secretary, but it appeared on Friday not to have cost support he will need to be confirmed as the new Pentagon chief. Republicans hammered Hagel when he appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday, with some…
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Fast Forward Former New York Mayor Ed Koch Dies at 88
Former Mayor Edward Koch, who presided over New York City during the turbulent late 1970s and ’80s and came to personify the city with his wry and outspoken style, died on Friday at the age of 88, his spokesman said. As mayor from 1978 to 1989, the forceful, quick-witted Koch, with his trademark phrase “How’m…
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Fast Forward Israeli Silence on Syria Is Strategic
Military secrets are not readily divulged anywhere. But in Israel the blanket silence that envelops officials after an event like Wednesday’s mysterious air strike on Syria reflects a deeper strategy involving both deterrence and outreach. Beyond customary concern to safeguard spies and tactics for a government currently engaged in a graver confrontation with Iran, Israelis…
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Fast Forward Israeli Silence on Syria Is Strategic
Military secrets are not readily divulged anywhere. But in Israel the blanket silence that envelops officials after an event like Wednesday’s mysterious air strike on Syria reflects a deeper strategy involving both deterrence and outreach. Beyond customary concern to safeguard spies and tactics for a government currently engaged in a graver confrontation with Iran, Israelis…
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Food Lawsuit Claiming Hebrew National Hot Dogs Not Kosher Dismissed
ConAgra Foods Inc has won the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by consumers claiming the company’s Hebrew National hot dogs and other products are not kosher. U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank in St. Paul federal court ruled on Thursday that he does not have jurisdiction over a dispute that he described as “intrinsically religious in…
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Fast Forward Senators Assail Obama’s Pentagon Nominee
Republican lawmakers harshly attacked Chuck Hagel on Thursday at a contentious hearing over his nomination to become the next U.S. defense secretary, questioning his judgment on war strategy and putting him broadly on the defensive. In one of the most heated exchanges, influential Senator John McCain aggressively questioned Hagel, interrupting him and talking over him…
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Fast Forward Under Kerry, US May Move Cautiously Towards Mideast Peace-Making
The United States has hinted it might try Middle East peace-making once again, but Secretary of State-designate John Kerry is likely to move cautiously, in contrast to U.S. President Barack Obama’s failed, high-profile first-term initiative. While the possibility of another failure may hang over the White House, Kerry suggested this week that time was running…
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Fast Forward Hagel Assures on Iran, Israel in Senate Confirmation Hearing
Chuck Hagel said he backed the U.S. policy of preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon as he testified on Thursday before a skeptical Senate panel considering his nomination to be President Barack Obama’s next secretary of defense. Hagel, a former Republican senator and decorated Vietnam veteran, broadly defended his record on national security issues…
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