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01.21.2009 5:54 pm

Updated: Caroline bows out and Barack gets down to business

Barack Obama and Joe Biden

Barack Obama and Joe Biden

Update: Caroline Kennedy, we hardly knew you. New York Times reports that she is withdrawing from consideration for appointment to the U.S. Senate to fill the seat vacated by new Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

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01.19.2009 9:00 pm

Guantánamo: Don’t wait, close it now

Prisoners of war from Nazi Germany's Afrika Korps interned in Alabama in 1944.

No Gitmo for them: Prisoners of war from Nazi Germany interned in Alabama in 1944.

On “Meet the Press” in June 2007, Colin Powell nicely summed up the urgency for closing the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba: “If it…

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10.24.2008 9:00 pm

Close Guantanamo, America’s stain

Sometime this week, the Bush administration is expected, for the first time, to make public its case for holding detainees at the military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Think about that: At one point, as many as 700 individuals were held…

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