Bhagwat's allegation implies that Vajpayee, who gave the go-ahead for the tests, did not have full confidence in his own defense minister.

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At a minimum, the Senator's formidable intellect and committed conservatism should make him a contender in his own right -- for the position of Secretary of State or Defense in a Republican administration headed by whichever candidate has the good political and policy sense to embrace the Wallop vision and, thereby, to improve his chances of winning the White House.

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AEG's lawyers will use Jackson's drug use history in their defense, arguing that it showed Jackson was responsible for his own death.

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The Russian president has explicitly endorsed the value of a world of defense, not of defenselessness for the American people and his own.

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But perhaps that was Petrocelli's point: He hammered home the defense idea that Fastow was intoxicated with avarice, looting the doomed energy trader for his own gain--and without the knowledge of Skilling or Lay, the firm's founder.

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