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Bob Kerrey has had a long and varied career as naval hero, businessman, governor, senator and now, university president

John Smith, who is acquiring a house through Central Oklahoma Habitat for Humanity in Oklahoma City, said Monday that he made up a past as a Navy Seal who was imprisoned when his helicopter was shot down during the Vietnam War.

There are many people who write history. There are very few who make history through their writings. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who died this week at the age of 89, was one of them. In many ways, Solzhenitsyn laid the intellectual foundations for the fall of Soviet communism. That is well known.

Something extraordinary is happening in China, and we are not talking about the Olympics. Rather, Chinese officials have been clamping down on visa applications and implementing bureaucratic impediments to new and renewed visa applications under the guise of pre-Olympic security.

MOYOCK, N.C. (AP) — Erik Prince gets his guests to the runway seconds before the turboprop's approach.

After more than three weeks of training with the camp staff, the campers go through the same test that is used to admit Navy personnel into SEAL training.

"Relax and have fun," were the words of inspiration for 38 youth wrestlers Monday night prior to the beginning of evening practice.

Mark Lippert is hardly the kind of man most people would expect to find as Barack Obama's longest-serving foreign-policy adviser. The buzz-cut Navy reservist has just returned to his civilian job at the senator's office after a year's deployment in Iraq.

Thursday, July 17, 2008

THE MAN IN CHARGE OF CATCHING OSAMA BIN LADEN 'CAN DRIVE A KNIFE THROUGH YOUR RIBS IN A NANOSECOND.' INSIDE THE SEARCH

BY MICHAEL HIRSH AND JOHN BARRY

By MC2 Christopher Menzie

PHOOOOOOOM!!!

Lt. Seth Stone paused, thinking the thundering sound he heard was a mortar landing in the distance. Then the Navy SEAL heard something else coming from his radio: the sound of pain.

It was his men, and they were in trouble.