| July 27, 2007 | - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales testified that no one in the Bush Administration had voiced objections to the NSA's wiretapping program. FBI director Robert Mueller testified that the surveillance program was “much discussed” by other officials, and Senate Judiciary chair Patrick Leahy of Vermont sent Mr. Gonzales a transcript of his testimony and asked him to “mark any changes you wish to make to correct, clarify or supplement your answers so that, consistent with your oath, they are the whole truth.”
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New York Times
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| August 21, 2006 | - Young people were loitering in the nude in parking lots in Brattleboro, Vermont.
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Boston.com
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| July 26, 2006 | -
Iraq's prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, condemned Israel's military actions; Howard Dean called al-Maliki an “anti-Semite.”
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AP
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| June 29, 2006 | - A Vermont teenager was convicted of stealing the bowtie and eyeglasses from a corpse and cutting off its head to make a bong.
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NBC5.com
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| December 16, 2005 | - The Senate voted not to extend portions of the Patriot Act. “It is time,” said Senator
Patrick Leahy, “to have some checks and balances in this country.”
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AP
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| November 25, 2005 | - A Vermont teacher was in trouble for testing students with liberal vocabulary questions. “I wish Bush,” read one question, “would be (coherent, eschewed) for once during a speech, but there are theories that his everyday diction charms the below-average mind, hence insuring him Republican votes.”
| Source:
Boston.com
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| July 5, 2005 | - A Hungarian-speaking parakeet was loose in Vermont.
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AP
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| April 14, 2005 | - A Vermont teenager was accused of breaking into a tomb and beheading a corpse. He apparently wanted to use the skull as a bong.
| Source:
The Barre-Montpelier Times Argus
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| March 23, 2005 | - A ten-year-old Vermont boy won a national smelly-sneaker contest. "The stank,” he said, “was from rubbing my toes back and forth and making them sweaty.”
| Source:
Boston.com
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| April 22, 2004 | - A highly radioactive nuclear fuel rod was missing in Vermont.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| May 29, 2001 | - Senator James M. Jeffords of Vermont defected from the Republican Party, handing control of the Senate to the Democrats, who promptly voted to confirm Theodore B. Olson as solicitor general, suggesting that the White House cabal had little to fear after all.
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| March 27, 2001 | - After months of dithering, United States
agriculture agents seized a flock of sheep from Skunk Hollow Farm in Vermont that are suspected of having a form of mad-cow disease. Twenty-one cattle in Texas will be destroyed because of similar concerns.
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| August 1, 2000 | - A family of Vermont
sheep
farmers vowed to prevent the government from slaughtering their flock of Belgian dairy sheep; four sheep descended from the flock tested positive for an ovine form of mad cow disease; “this is just like trying to take Elian Gonzalez all over again,” one neighbor said.
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| January 26, 2000 | - Selectmen in Brattleboro, Vermont, passed a measure allowing town residents to vote to indict President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for war crimes.
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Rutland Herald
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