Closing arguments set for Kerrigan trial (Providence Journal)

WOBURN, Mass. (AP) -- A Massachusetts jury is set to hear closing arguments in the manslaughter trial of the brother of Olympic skater Nancy Kerrigan.... Share With Friends: | | Politics - Top Stories News, News Feeds and News via Feedzilla.

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On first day of European trip, Obama touches his Irish roots (Los Angeles Times)

President Obama arrived here Monday to begin a week-long visit to Europe, trying to forge a common way forward with allies facing two wars, a Middle East in turmoil, and economies still struggling to recover from the 2008 collapse. Share With Friends: | | Politics - Top Stories Stories, RSS and RSS Feed via Feedzilla.

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Obama to plant tree next to JFK's (Washington Bureau)

White House press pool report from Dublin: President Barack Obama arrived at President Mary McAleese's residence, a large white house set in a large park, shortly after 10 a.m. local. He and Michelle Obama walked into the State Reception Room... Share With Friends: | | Politics - Top Stories Stories, RSS Feeds and Widgets via Feedzilla.

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Rand Paul Slams Obama, Defends Israel

James Antle, American SpectatorDuring his Senate campaign, Rand Paul walked a careful line on foreign policy: he shared his father's basic skepticism of interventionism but tried to be much more respectful of the majority viewpoint within the Republican Party. Sometimes that led him to state his positions differently from his father; sometimes it led him to take different positions than his father.So it was interesting to read the Kentucky senator's statement on President Obama's Middle East speech. As expected, Paul slammed Obama's liberal interventionism: "Our mistakes in foreign policy have...

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Pomp And Circumstance And Tried-But-True Clichés

It's graduation season. Politicians, philanthropists, philosophers and movie stars fan out for the next few weeks to give commencement speeches: Bill Clinton was at NYU on Wednesday, Stephen Colbert goes to Northwestern in three weeks, Tom Hanks visits Yale tomorrow. I wonder if Mr. Hanks can resist saying, "Life is like a box of chocolates . . ."

President Obama gave the commencement speech at Booker T. Washington High School in Memphis on Monday. Just three years ago, only half of the school's students graduated. But students and teachers worked hard, and this year's graduation rate is over 80 percent. The president of the United States told the graduating seniors, "I could not be prouder of what you do." Great speech.

Last year Al Gore charmingly confided to students at the University of Tennessee that he couldn't remember his own 1969 commencement speaker at Harvard. "I just remember the weather and the feelings of excitement and relief," he told the students to wild applause. "And the parties."

Stewart Udall, the former Secretary of the Interior, gave Harvard's commencement speech in 1969. You'd think a man who invented the Internet would know how to Google.

Even I get asked to give commencement speeches. It's a privilege. People call you Doctor for the day, and ask you to take a look at something on their neck. You meet smart professors backstage, and you get to hear them talk without paying tuition.

And it's gratifying to run into a bright, smiling young person on the street or in an airport who say they remember you as their commencement speaker, and see that they're not being led away by police.

A few years ago, I opened a commencement speech with a few jokes about what I thought were plainly graduation clichés: "Remember, education is a journey, not a destination! Today is the first day of the rest of your life!"

But several students later shook my hand to tell me how much those opening words had meant. And I realized: graduations, like weddings, funerals, and World Series parades, are one of those days that make clichés ring true.

If any graduates are up early, let me offer a few thoughts as they step into these arduous and exciting times.

Let life change you. You've worked hard and learned a lot. But if you live well, you're going to know love, loss, confusion and failure—life's truest teachers. Real life can shatter certainties like a delicate cup in a tornado. Keep learning. Be inconsistent. Don't have a rich, full life only to wind up at 40 with the same convictions you had when you were 20. Let life in.

And remember—today really is the first day of the rest of your life.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/05/21/136523410/pomp-and-circumstance-and-tried-but-true-clich-s?ft=1&f=1057

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The Weekly Standard: Don't Pull Troops, Send More

The American counterinsurgency against the Taliban is in full swing but it is rumored that President Obama might cut troops in July. Gary Schmitt of The Weekly Standard argues that Afghanistan needs more troops.

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