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...case. The Prime Minister had a two-hour meeting on Thursday with Gaetano Pecorella, a lawyer and legislator who divides his time between defending Berlusconi in the Milan case and chairing the lower house's justice committee - where he has been spearheading the passage of laws that directly affect the trials against his client and other political allies. Is this another glaring conflict of interest for Berlusconi, who has been criticized for retaining ownership of Italy's three major private television networks while running the country? Pecorella says there's no conflict, noting that both he and the Prime Minister...
...told my husband in 1992 that Ross Perot wouldn’t affect the election,” she said. “Then I told my son that running for governor would never work out. And when he wanted to run for president, that wouldn’t work out either. So much for my political expertise...
...include in the project—Bank Street College of Education in New York City; California State University, Northridge; Michigan State University; and the University of Virginia—with four more to follow. Carnegie Corporation Education Division Chair Daniel Fallon said he expects the plan to grow and affect education across America...
...Since 9/11, congressional attention, like everyone else's, has snapped away from domestic policy and toward the war on terror. There are domestic issues on the table, says Thurber, but they are evergreen, high profile bills, like Medicare reform and bankruptcy protection measures. Issues, in other words, that directly affect this administration, says Susan Tolchin, professor of public policy and an expert on elections at George Mason University. "This is not an issue that has hurt Republicans so far," says Tolchin. "Look at what happened in Florida last week - the White House couldn't care less which Democrat runs against...
...thorny mess of election reform, ironically, seems to inflame voters less than questions of personal health or economic security. "If election reform doesn't pass in time to affect 2004," says Tolchin, "the vast majority of the public will just scratch their heads and move on. There's just no critical mass pushing for election reform...