Wednesday, September 02, 2009 WASHINGTON: Former first daughter and UT alum Jenna Bush Hager will begin contributing a "variety of human interest and feature stories" to NBC's Today. Hager impressed the show's producers in previous appearances, and her résumé includes vaguely journalistic endeavors like Ana's Story, the biography of an HIV-positive teenage mother Hager met during a UNICEF internship, and the pro-literacy children's book, Read All About It, co-authored by her mother. Besides, do you know how hard it is to fill four hours of morning television?Long after the fateful night when Hager was busted for sidling up to the Chuy's bar with a fake I.D., she quietly completed her studies at UT, married fellow politician's kid Henry Hager, and settled in Baltimore, where she currently works as a teacher. "I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about, because I think I'd do the best job on them—education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy," she told media.
BAGHDAD: Nearly 500 U.S. Army combat engineers who specialize in clearing roads of explosives started shifting to southern Afghanistan."We are probably going to be the beginning of the influx you are going to see to Afghanistan," Lt. Col. Kevin Landers, commander of the Fort Carson, Colo.-based 4th Engineer Battalion, said as crews packed crates and cleaned vehicles for the flight to Kandahar.Obama has ordered 17,000 more U.S. soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan to bolster the 38,000 American troops already battling the resurgent Taliban."We are going to take this footprint out of Iraq," said Landers, whose battalion received word of its reassignment last month just after taking command of clearing roads in Baghdad of bombs and debris.
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