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Sixteen active duty U.S. military personnel are competing in the London 2012 games. But, they're by no means the only American troops taking part in the games. Some 300 service members, stationed at UK Royal Air Forces bases, are getting to take part in the games from behind the scenes.
Captain Kurt Nemmer serves in the 501st Combat Support Wing. But, for the Olympics, he's serving in an athlete support role as a volunteer. Prior to the Opening Ceremony he worked to make sure Team USA looked its best when it took the field in Olympic Stadium. "We just have them try everything on," he said. "If anything needs fitted, there's a team of tailors that come in and adjust sizes. We'll switch sizes and just work from there to make the team look the best they can for the Opening and Closing ...
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Op-ed submission by Project 21 It's said Lyndon Baines Johnson used voter fraud to win his 1948 Senate primary campaign. In 1954, then-Senator Johnson orchestrated a law prohibiting church involvement in electoral politics. Yet it was LBJ's presidential library where Attorney General Eric Holder chose to demonize ballot protection laws last year. And it was [...]
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On August 3, 2012, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton traveled to Kampala, Uganda where she met with President Museveni to encourage strengthening of democratic institutions and human rights, while also reinforcing Uganda as a key U.S. partner in promoting regional security, particularly in regard to Somalia and in regional efforts to counter the Lord's Resistance Army. She also presented the State Department's 2011 Human Rights Defenders Award to a coalition of civil society groups and highlighted... more »
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With less than 100 days to the US November elections, presidential candidates have upped the tempo of their campaigns in what appears to be a tight race for the White House.
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