by Frank James
A quick guided tour of some of the morning’s most important or interesting (or both) Washington-related stories.
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President Bush is resorting to a familiar strategy in his effort to buy time for his Iraq strategy, a vigorous campaign to win over the hearts and minds of American voters and congressional Republicans.
More than 90 percent of the Army’s new recruits are choosing to take a $20,000 bonus in exchange for heading off to basic camp by the end of September. Fred Thompson, as a staff lawyer to a congressional investigative committee straddled the line between probing Republican targets of investigations and defending them.
The student who killed 32 people at Virginia Tech had an extreme anxiety disorder that had been effectively treated during his high school but which federal privacy and disability laws prevented Fairfax County, Va. school officials from sharing that information with university officials.
Sen. Barack Obama depends on Peter Rouse, a long-time Washington insider, who provides the presidential candidate, still a relative neophyte in the nation’s capital, with the wisdom about important Washington ways that comes from experience.
Employers are dropping temporary workers which is often a sign of a weakening economy.
Surveyed economists said the biggest short-term threats to the economy were the fallout from the economy were the fallout from the mortgage crisis and huge debt loads rather than another major terrorism attack.