The Obama administration must dream up an explanation for why it is proceeding on a fiscal course that even his Government Acountability Office ( Overview: Federal Debt and the Fiscal Outlook) concludes is unsustainable.
In a hearing to discuss the sentencing that's shaping up to be a multi-day proceeding, attorneys for Mohamed Alessa and Carlos Almonte sparred with a government attorney over the significance of a fight that occurred in July between the two defendants and another inmate at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where they are being held.
Russian parliament member Alexei Arbatov said the test's failure didn't add up to much, but warned against the political consequences of proceeding with the program.
The fact that the network did shows that executives over there realize the importance of keeping up the appearance that everyone is in on the joke and that discussions are proceeding amicably.
Here recently completed lives are examined and evaluated, in a formal proceeding something like a trial: if the defendant wins the case, he moves up the cosmic ladder to a higher form of consciousness.