Caroline Kennedy and journalist Al Hunt presented the Profile in Courage Award to the senator, who did not appear onstage.

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Abramson was invited to an interview with the Washington bureau chief, Al Hunt, who agreed to see her only to accommodate Pearlstine.

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One night in 1986 he was having dinner in a Mexican restaurant when he noticed Al Hunt, the Wall Street Journal's resident liberal, sitting at another table with his wife and four-year-old son.

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"We see this as an opportunity to show a larger group the quality of what we are doing and, in that sense, enlarge our presence, " said Al Hunt, the executive editor of Bloomberg News, which is sending 150 people to the conventions, three times its 2008 contingent.

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As the hunt for al-Qaeda members continues, arrests are being made.

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The Americans will still hunt the Taliban and al-Qaeda, while the British, the largest part of the new southern force, will focus on helping Afghan forces with security and long-term development.

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Scheuer used to be head of the bin Laden unit at the CIA's Counterterrorism Center (which is different from the newer National Counterterrorism Center), and he says he thinks his successor is the person leading the day-to-day hunt for bin Laden and the rest of al Qaeda's leadership.

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Bush described al Qaeda as "wounded, but not destroyed" and said the United States would continue to hunt down members of the terrorist network.

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"Al is one of the most important people in terms of growth and building the league, " says Lamar Hunt, owner of the Kansas City Chiefs.

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