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If anyone else called him “little jerk,” Sen. Lindsey Graham might be offended. But the jab comes from Sen. John McCain, so he wears it like a badge of honor. “If John’s not belittling you, you’re in trouble,” Graham said. “He calls me lots of other names, too, but they’re not appropriate for the newspaper.” McCain and Graham aren’t just friends. They’re inseparable, so much so that colleagues, staffers and journalists have begun making cracks about the relationship between the freshman senator from South Carolina and the man who would be president. Some call Graham a lapdog. Others say he...

If anyone else called him “little jerk,” Sen. Lindsey Graham might be offended. But the jab comes from Sen. John McCain, so he wears it like a badge of honor. “If John’s not belittling you, you’re in trouble,” Graham said. “He calls me lots of other names, too, but they’re not appropriate for the newspaper.” McCain and Graham aren’t just friends. They’re inseparable, so much so that colleagues, staffers and journalists have begun making cracks about the relationship between the freshman senator from South Carolina and the man who would be president. Some call Graham a lapdog. Others say he...

North Korea opened a broadside against Seoul over its proposed troop dispatch to Iraq as a South Korean presidential envoy left for Russia and China to seek a peaceful solution to the peninsula's nuclear crisis. The North's ruling Workers Party newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, insisted the troop dispatch proposed by South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun deserves "curses and denunciation by all the fellow countrymen." "The projected troop dispatch is a criminal act of welcoming the US war of aggression against (North Korea)," it said, describing the war in Iraq as "a test war" for a second Korean war. North Korea has...