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Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 20th, 2011 4:35 am by HL
Jon Huntsman gets the Vogue treatment
Vogue magazine loves to profile political players, and Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman gets the full, glossy treatment in the September issue.
In an article dubbed “Jon Huntsman: The Outsider,” reporter Jacob Weisberg goes on the campaign trail and down memory lane with Huntsman and his family, portraying the former Utah governor and Obama’s ambassador to China as the moderate of the 2012 Republican presidential field.
The in-depth profile come complete with Annie Leibovitz photographs, one a sun-dappled photo featuring Huntsman with his wife and six of his seven children striding lithely through a grassy field, and another of Huntsman in a wood-paneled room peering into the camera with the intense, quizzical gaze that Weisberg explains thusly:
Panetta: Iraqis want some U.S. troops to stay
Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said Friday that Iraq and the United States had made “progress” in discussions about whether to keep U.S. troops in that country beyond the end of the year — a rare note of optimism after months of talks going nowhere.
In a joint interview with Military Times and Stars and Stripes, Panetta was asked for an update on the Obama administration’s efforts to persuade Iraqi leaders to decide whether they want any U.S. troops to stay after Dec. 31.
“My view is that they finally did say yes,” Panetta responded, summarizing recent internal Iraqi government decisions. “It was unanimous consent among the key leaders of the country to go ahead and request that we negotiate on some kind of training, what a training presence would look like.”
Young skater’s photo ID moves Arlington Cemetery’s reburial of urn a step closer
When Rachel Stecher’s father saw the newspaper at 7:30 Friday morning at his Ashburn home, he called out to his wife: “Wow! Rachel’s on the front page!”
Kate Stecher thought maybe it was an article about the Air Force Academy, where Rachel is in her second year. Then he showed her the photo, and she was dumbfounded.
Rachel Stecher, according to her family, is the young girl in the mysterious photograph and the answer to the puzzle Army special agents had been trying to solve for months.
North Korea to discuss recovery of POW remains
North Korea announced an agreement Friday to discuss how the U.S. could recover remains of American troops killed in the Korean War, the most significant sign of progress since U.S. officials halted such work in 2005.
Roughly 8,000 U.S. service members remain missing, with 5,500 of them thought to be buried in North Korea, according to the Pentagon.
The North’s state media, Korean Central News Agency, quoted an unnamed foreign ministry official Friday saying that Pyongyang had accepted the U.S. proposal to talk and that preparations for discussion had begun.
