LITTLE ROCK — Former President Jimmy Carter, 85, is recovering at a Cleveland hospital from an upset stomach that was likely caused by a viral infection, according to a statement from Metro-Health Medical Center.
Henry Kissinger, former secretary of state and national security adviser for the Nixon and Ford administrations, said at a State Department conference that he believes “the tragedy of the Vietnam War was not that there were disagreements - that was inevitable, given the complexity of the [conflict] - but that the faith of Americans in each other became destroyed in the process.”
Sarah Palin, the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee, has been given a 20-day protective order by an Alaska judge against 18-year-old Shawn R. Christy, a Pennsylvanian accused of stalkingand threatening her.
Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he thinks the Pentagon’s ban preventing homosexuals from serving openly in the military should be revoked, adding: “I struggle greatly with the fact that we ask people in an institution that values integrity, which is who we are, that we’d ask individuals to show up every day and basically lie.”
Andy Inglis, BP’s head of drilling at the time of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, will step down from the company’s board on Oct. 31 and leave the London-based firm at the end of the year.
Bethany Storro, 28, of Vancouver, Wash., who has confessed to making a false claim that a stranger splashed acid in her face when in fact she put drain cleaner on her face in a suicide attempt, pleaded innocent to theft charges related to the donations she got for medical bills.
Laura Bush, the former first lady, told a Dallas group that the first initiative of the George W. Bush Institute will focus on improving the performance of school principals, saying: “A welltrained, energetic teacher can be stifled under lackluster or discouraging administrators.”
David Cohen, 45, a Johns Hopkins Hospital doctor who was shot in the abdomen on Sept. 16 by a patient’s son, has been released from the Baltimore hospital.
David Miliband, 45, Britain’s former foreign secretary who was defeated by his younger brother Ed in a bid for the leadership role of the opposition Labor Party, said he won’t seek a position in his brother’s alternative Cabinet but will remain a member of Parliament.
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