The administration's brief could not be blunter in its argument that the president is the law on this issue: "The president, in his capacity as commander in chief, has conclusively determined that the Guantánamo detainees... are not entitled to prisoner-of-war status under the Geneva Convention".
"The pace will depend on their seriousness about the existential nature of this threat," said the official, who appeared in the White House briefing room but could not be identified by name under ground rules set by the White House.
The brief clip, which could not be independently confirmed, showed a scene of chaos and destruction at a burning police station in the city.
Wilson participated in the lottery process to find schools for his children, and his oldest child enrolled in the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in the fall as a sophomore, according to a mayoral administration official briefed on the matter who could not be named because of the sensitivity of the situation.
Mr. Mubarak's true condition, including the potential health consequences of even a brief blood clot in his neck, could not be determined.
Graeme Souness has sometimes been accused of doing insufficient homework on opponents but Newcastle United's manager could not be better briefed for tonight's Uefa Cup first leg against Olympiakos in Piraeus.
Censors at the culture ministry issued a brief statement saying that the film could not be distributed in Thailand because it "has content that causes divisiveness among the people of the nation".
These brief but rhetorically powerful occasional pieces could not be called unphilosophical, yet by their very nature they are not the sorts of works in which one encounters philosophical discussions of any great depth or rigor.
The housing money would come with strings attached, according to administration officials who had been briefed on the details, and it could not be spent unless lawmakers loosened regulations on homebuilders. .
But two senior administration officials, in a briefing under ground rules in which they could not be identified, said the $50 million to $60 million for the removal of the rubble would be paid to the Palestinian Authority as an employment project, though it had not been determined where the money would come from.
