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...drug companies from battling to preserve their status as the nation's most profitable industry. One tactic: funding phony grassroots groups. One or more industry-funded groups that go by the names Consumer Alliance, 60-Plus and Medicines Work have fought against lists in Michigan, Maryland, Minnesota, West Virginia, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, the Carolinas and other states. A common way they shape opinion is through telemarketing initiatives that give recipients selected facts and then offer to patch them through to the governor or legislature to register their disapproval. In some states, like West Virginia, drugmakers have filed lawsuits to challenge...
...administration bent on keeping its conservative base happy, though, tacking way right on judicial nominees and clashing with the opposition has no real downside. Proof that Bush isn?t changing course: his nomination earlier this month of Alabama Attorney General William Pryor to an appellate court seat. Pryor, besides being vigorously anti-abortion and plenty willing to smudge the line separating church and state, last year criticized a Supreme Court ruling that state corrections officers could be sued for tying prisoners to hitching posts for long periods because they should have known that it was cruel and unusual punishment. Pryor...
Virgil Griffith, a student at the University of Alabama at New College who has a link to Hoffman’s page on his website, is also named as a defendant in the complaint...
...believe how many people showed up to watch. Just a wee bit intimidating for a girl who wasn’t sure which hand her mitt went on. Maryland (that’s me) batted last for the South, down two with runners on first and second. Folks in Alabama haven’t forgotten the Civil War—the fans were going crazy screaming for me. Too bad I only hit a double, bringing Louisiana home but leaving South Carolina stuck on third. The North prevailed, 14-13. The Southern gents and belles weren?...
...quick word about my fellow state winners: these girls were amazing. I expected to deal with prima donnas and drama queens for two weeks, but these chicks were talented, wicked smart and accomplished. Some of them had beat out hundreds of girls in their state to get to Alabama. I, on the other hand, had reluctantly entered and blown off any major effort to prepare. I kept wondering when my official Junior Miss ride would turn back into a pumpkin...