$5 million
Amount offered the Smiths to reunite at the upcoming Coachella Valley Arts and Music Festival in southern California. They turned it down.
“We’re a long way from civil war.”
General George W. Casey Jr., the senior American commander in Iraq, during an interview on CNN’s Late Edition.
“If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is.”
Former interim Iraqi prime ministerAyad Allawi, who now heads a 25-seat secular alliance of representatives in Iraq’s 275-seat National Assembly.
30 million
Number of bags temporarily lost by airlines in 2005, according to an industry report.
200,000
Number of those bags never returned to their owners.
“Sexual orientation or preference may not be used as a basis for or a disqualifying factor in determining a person’s eligibility for a security clearance.”
— The federal government’s Adjudicative Guidelines for Determining Eligibility for Access to Classified Information, or security-clearance rules, from 1997.
“No adverse inference concerning the standards in the Guideline may be raised solely on the basis of the sexual orientation of the individual.”
— The slightly altered rules, revised in December 2005 and released last week, which civil-rights activists say will make it easier to deny clearance to gays and lesbians.
