Dick Cheney may be a taciturn man, writes author Stephen F. Hayes, but the vice president can become animated discussing doomsday scenarios. In his new biography, "Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President". The vice president has become a kind of modern-day prophet of doom. He is seen by many Americans as slightly creepy, if not sinister. Of course, he could be right: Al Qaeda may well be, as recent intelligence reports suggest, gearing up for another and possibly more catastrophic attack. But what makes Cheney so dire, so animated by gloom?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19886673/site/newsweek/The nation's spy chief on Sunday would not identify what CIA interrogators are allowed to do in getting information from terror suspects, but tried to assure critics that torture is not condoned or used. National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell, in a rare broadcast interview, defended a new order from President Bush that broadly outlines the limits of how suspects may be questioned in the CIA's terror interrogation program.
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Ahead in New Hampshire polls, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has turned his sights away from his GOP rivals and onto Democratic front-runners, blasting Sen. Barack Obama for backing kindergarten sex education and comparing Sen. Hillary Clinton to communist Karl Marx. "I don't think America's going to take a left turn. I don't think we're going to follow Hillary Clinton, John Edwards or Barack Obama," Romney said at a GOP luncheon.
http://news.bostonherald.com/politics/view.bg?articleid=1012871A spacewalking astronaut tossed two large chunks of junk off the international space station Monday, hurling the old equipment into orbit. Clayton Anderson, a sportsman who enjoys officiating basketball games back on Earth, heaved a 1,400-pound, refrigerator-size ammonia tank away from the station. His first toss was a 200-pound camera mounting. Mission Control declared the tank throw great and "right down the middle."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19910584/The seventh and final volume in the Harry Potter series has become the fastest selling book in history, publishers said on Monday, with more than 11 million copies sold during the first 24 hours in three markets alone. U.S. sales of the eagerly awaited "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" hit 8.3 million, comfortably beating the previous Potter installment, which posted sales of 6.9 million copies in the first day, U.S. publisher Scholastic announced.
http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=2007-07-23T165051Z_01_L20656053_RTRIDST_0_ENTERTAINMENT-ARTS-POTTER-COL.XMLTom Cruise has found himself being compared to the Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels in an outspoken attack from Germany's Protestant Church. The Hollywood star was accused of producing "propaganda for Scientology" as he began work on a film about an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Cruise has already been barred from filming at military sites for the movie because of his membership of the Scientologists, who are regarded as a cult by the German authorities.
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