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Can the Democrats Just Get Along?
Get ready for massive news coverage tomorrow of the Democrats' Rules and Bylaws Committee, which might finally decide if Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton gets the nomination. Then again, it might not. Also, the father of radical jihad calls for restraint. On Reporter's Notebook, was a transplanted liver a medical miracle or a political mistake?
By Warren Olney • • 1h 0m ListenGet ready for massive news coverage tomorrow of the Democrats' Rules and Bylaws Committee, which might finally decide if Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton gets the nomination. Then again, it might not. We hear from both sides playing out a scenario that would have been unbelievable on The West Wing. Also, the father of radical jihad calls for restraint, and despite a shortage of transplantable organs, Japanese gangsters got new livers at a major American hospital—with help from the FBI.
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3 storiesThe Father of Radical Jihad Calls for Restraint
Despite recent warnings about al Qaeda, CIA Director Michael Hayden has told the Washington Post the terrorist movement is "essentially defeated in both Iraq and Saudi Arabia and on the defensive through much of the rest of the world." This week's New Yorker magazine reports that radical Islam is "confronting a rebellion within its ranks."
Read the story6 minDemocrats to Decide Rules for Michigan, Florida Delegates
There will be standing room only for tomorrow's meeting of a group even political junkies never heard of before, the Democrats' Rules and Bylaws Committee. Thirty party insiders will try to compromise on disputed delegates from two states that will matter greatly in the general election.
Read the story35 minJapanese Yakuza and Liver Transplants in the US
The UCLA Medical Center is a world-renown center for organ transplants. Between 2000 and 2004, organs were scarce, but Tadamasa Goto and three other Japanese gangsters got ahead of the line. Goto, who leads a Japanese gang called the Goto-gumi, is barred from the United States.
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