The new counsel to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice talks about the uses of history, in Iraq and everywhere else wars are fought.

WASHINGTON, March 14 (UPI) -- The U.S. Justice Department used a formula in 2005 to rank the country's 93 U.S. attorneys that placed political allegiance on a par with performance.

Published March 15, 2007 in issue 0611 of the HooK. In Charlottesville , March Madness has a slightly different meaning from the rest of the basketball-craz ed universe.

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In ways both big and small, "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" is a rebellion movie less interested in the battlefields of the Irish Civil War of 1919 than in the psychic struggles that accompany a nation's uprising; or to borrow from its title, this Ken Loach epic is less about the swirling winds of unrest than how these gusts push a landscape in unexpected directions. It is a theme most vividly ...

Sept. 29, 2006, was a day Hector De Leon will never forget. That is the day he says immigration officials showed up to his Phoenix home with bulletproof vests and guns and arrested his wife, Silvia Carpeo.

Bush administration accusations that Iran is supplying roadside bombs that are killing American soldiers in Iraq are all too reminiscent of pretexts used by half a dozen previous administrations to justify acts of war.