WASHINGTON - National Intelligence Estimates are notorious for being watered down, partly because analysts spread across 16 different spy agencies often have difficulty settling on just the right words.
THE United States threatened to bomb Pakistan "back to the Stone Age" after the 11 September terrorist attacks if it did not back the war on terrorism, its president, Pervez Musharraf, claimed just hours after a meeting with George Bush yesterday.
Adm. John William Kime, retired commandant of the Coast Guard and former captain of the Port of Baltimore who helped to expand the federal government's role in preventing and responding to oil spills, died of cancer Thursday at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care in Towson. He was 72.
At a recent Palestine Center briefing, Kevin Zeese addresses the problems with U.S. foreign policy towards the Middle East and discusses possible solutions.
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Film listings are edited by Cheryl Eddy. Reviewers are Robert Avila, Kimberly Chun, Michelle Devereaux, Susan Gerhard, Max Goldberg, Dennis Harvey, Johnny Ray Huston, Jonathan L. Knapp, Laurie Koh, Lynn Rapoport, Jason Shamai, and Chuck Stephens. The film intern is Sara Schieron.
ALL Scotland's electricity needs could be met from renewable energy sources by 2050 under a bold vision for a greener future unveiled yesterday by Nicol Stephen, the deputy first minister.
CARPENTER - Stand in the parking lot of Burnett Enterprises outside Carpenter, and your view of southeastern Laramie County is almost exclusively of fields, houses and farm buildings.
An Annapolis development firm has won the right to transform a 15-acre, state-owned parking lot adjacent to the Savage MARC station into a $175 million complex of offices, residences and shops, ending a three-year search for a private company to jump-start the languishing industrial enclave along...