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President George W. Bush gave a radio address for Memorial Day weekend, invoking the sacrifice of 4,071 U.S. soldiers in Iraq and 432 in Afghanistan. Later, for the last time in his capacity as President, he placed a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Ten thousand Iraqi troops met little resistance as they took control of Mahdi Army-controlled Sadr City under the terms of a cease-fire agreement.
Oil rose above $130 a barrel,
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and Barack Obama won the Democratic primary in Oregon, while Hillary Clinton won in Kentucky.
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Clinton insisted that her candidacy was still viable. "My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right?" she offered. "We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California."
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Obama gave the commencement address at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. "You know that feeling when you're so excited you have to pee?" asked Lola Pellegrino, '08. "I'm feeling that. In my heart." Obama, who spoke in place of Senator Ted Kennedy after Kennedy was diagnosed with a likely fatal malignant brain tumor, called for a "generation of volunteers to work on renewable energy projects." Twenty-five thousand people attended. "I can't imagine anyone that the Wesleyan student body would possibly be more excited about," said Sarah Lonning, '06. "Maybe Gandhi, if he weren't dead."
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In Afghanistan, at Chaghcharan Airfield in Ghor, two civilians and a Lithuanian soldier were killed in protests over the shooting of a Koran in Iraq,.
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and Lebanese factions met in Qatar and gave Hezbollah veto power in Lebanon's new national unity cabinet. It was, said a U.S. State Department representative, "really a welcome development."
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Remember former Congressman Curt Weldon? He's the one currently under federal investigation for allegedly steering business to a lobbying firm headed by his daughter. And now running an international consulting firm in Washington, and using the contacts he established in Congress to steer business his own way. . . .
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Senator John McCain's charitable works don't appear to be terribly impressive. As I reported here a few months back, he has essentially been the sole contributor to the John and Cindy McCain Family foundation, which between 2001 and 2006 made contributions of roughly $1.6 million, of which more than $500,000 went to his kids' private schools. So McCain apparently received major tax deductions for supporting elite schools attended by his children. . . .
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