Saturday, April 29, 2006

"Vice President Cheney will speak Monday at the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, at a conference titled "Islam and the West." Cheney will speak at a luncheon honoring Bernard Lewis, a historian and Princeton University's Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies. The daylong conference includes speeches by Cheney, U.S. Sen. Joseph Biden (D., Del.), and others. Biden, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, will "lay out a new strategy for how to move forward in Iraq," according to a news release from his office."