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On the April 5 Fox show The Five, the crew was discussing the movie Chappaquiddick and how some "powerful people on the left" tried to block the movie. It is telling that some still want to block a movie about how Kennedy left Mary Jo Kopechne to die inside the submerged car that he drove off the bridge in 1969. Kennedy is dead, so why hide the truth at this late stage? Williams said he didn't know the "story" of Chappaquiddick. You would expect that someone whose job is a paid political commentator would know the story. Kennedy would have...

WASHINGTON, April 8, 2008 – American troops fighting in Iraq understand the importance of their mission there despite strains caused by repeated deployments, the senior U.S. military officer in Iraq told Senate Foreign Relations Committee members today. “There is no question that these multiple tours have put enormous strain on the force, absolutely,” Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of Multinational Force Iraq, told committee members. Yet, current statistics indicate high re-enlistment rates among troops that have served multiple tours of duty in Iraq, Petraeus said. Thanks to lessons learned, the training of American troops and education of military...

Manny Loya has a bond with Tucson's war dead. In the hot sun, he gazes at their headstones, imagining how they lived, whom they loved and how they died. "At first, I used to dream about them," said Loya, a volunteer grave tender at Holy Hope Cemetery, the final resting place of thousands of departed military personnel. For the past week or so, the retired city sanitation worker has performed his annual labor of love, sprucing up the cemetery for the national holiday honoring fallen troops. It's a time of year that leaves him feeling sentimental. "Look at all these...

Editors' preface: A noted historian of the Middle East has said the following about the legacy of scholars who devoted their careers to the study of the region: The giants of the recent past tend to be largely forgotten as soon as they are dead if not before, especially if what they have written isn't what is now considered fashionable or central … They are criticized when they are in error, but their achievements are forgotten.[1] While this is largely true in the English-speaking countries, it is not true in France, where a few French "giants" of Islamic and Arab...