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  1. Linda Hunt -- Living Dangerously
    Linda Hunt (born April 2, 1945) is an American film, stage and television actress. She is known for her Academy Award-winning role in 1983's The Year of Living Dangerously. She ... did the voice acting for the role of Gaia, the female titan who narrated the God of War series of video games.
  2. Commander In Chief -- United States
    The point of "Commander in Chief" is to tell the story of the first woman president of the United States. Her resume is that she was a prosecutor, elected to the U.S. Congress twice as an independent from Connecticut (they have had an independent Senator), and then Chancellor of the University of Richmond (Go Spiders!). When Republican Vice President Teddy Bridges runs for president, he gets her to be his running mate. If this seems like a weird political ploy, for the Republican nominee to pick a less conservative woman as his running mate, then you should know the Democratic nominee picked a more conservative man, a general no less, to be his running mate. In the "Pilot" episode, a dying Bridges wants Allen to resign so that Speaker of the House Nathan Templeton (Donald Sutherland) can become president. If she agrees, then there is no show.
  3. Rumsfeld -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
    On Nov. 18, more than half of the House of Representatives — 246 members — signed a letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, demanding that he let Able Danger agents testify before congressional hearings. Washington is awaiting Rumsfeld’s response....
  4. Mikhail Khodorkovsky -- Trials
    Khodorkovsky's custody had been scheduled to end on Dec. 30. No date has been set for his trial on charges of fraud, embezzlement and tax evasion. The elections are scheduled for March 14.
  5. Patrol -- Border Patrol
    A Border Patrol chief at one of the nation's most dangerous Southwest border crossings says the agency's mission doesn't include apprehending illegal aliens or seizing narcotics — perplexing front-line agents and angering a congressional critic of illegal immigration. WashingtonTimes.com, August 26, 2007
  6. High Command -- Army High Command
    The high command consisted of the Ministry of National Defense and the General Staff. The minister of national defense was always a professional officer bearing the rank of army general or colonel general. In 1990... reformers called for a civilian defense minister to ensure civilian control over the armed forces. The military flatly rejected such demands, insisting that the minister of national defense must be a professional officer because civilians lacked the required expertise--despite evidence of able civilian administration of defense ministries in other countries.
  7. Nuremberg Trials -- Einsatzgruppen Case
    Perhaps nothing better illustrates the essentially unfair character of the Nuremberg proceedings than the treatment of Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy. He was sentenced to life imprisonment even though he alone of leading figures of the countries involved in the Second World War risked his life in a dangerous but fruitless effort to conclude peace between two of the warring nations. British historian A.J.P. Taylor once succinctly summed up the injustice of the Hess case and, by implication, of the entire Nuremberg enterprise: (note 34)
  8. Whistleblower -- Whistleblower Program
    WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- As of November 30, 2005 Gary Aldrich, President of the Patrick Henry Center (PHC) has taken Lt. Colonel Tony Shaffer of the Defense Intelligence Agency Operation Able Danger into the PHC WhistleBlower program. "We have agreed to help protect Shaffer," Aldrich explained.
  9. Nuclear Proliferation -- North Korea
    North Korea remains a nuclear proliferation risk and is probably still pursuing a uranium enrichment capacity, a US intelligence assessment concluded Tuesday. In an annual threat assessment to Congress, US national intelligence chief Mike McConnell noted that Pyongyang missed a December 21 deadline for making a full declaration of its nuclear program. more
  10. Violence Against Israelis
    Some commentators argue that the extent of the violence against Israel is greatly exaggerated, pointing out the combined homicide rate including deaths from terrorism is still lower than that of many Western countries. For example, E.V. Kontorovich writes in the NY Post, "The State Department last month issued a travel warning urging Americans to 'defer travel to Israel' because the place is too dangerous - the second such warning in four months. Yet Israel is still safer than America - let alone other nations for which State does not offer warnings." [1].
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