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...electoral experience, and so far he's been mum on his agenda except to say he is antiabortion and pro--gun rights. He has enlisted members of the team that helped vault Tom Ridge from obscure Congressman to Governor in 1995. Some think Swann could have the same appeal as another charismatic political neophyte--California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Swann is chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, a job Schwarzenegger once held. And he seems to have a similar rock-star aura. "You see him in a crowd, there are people swarming around him," said political...
...cleared the way for a resale of the popular Dynamo football club. There are bound to be protracted legal challenges to come. Pinchuk and Akhmetov are said to be trying to work out a behind-the-scenes deal for the steel mill, but they have also filed their appeal. Pinchuk's lawyer Serhiy Vlasenko told the daily Kyiv Post last month: "I do not see the legal grounds on which to review [the Kryvorizhstal] sale." Under the circumstances, even Yushchenko's supporters worry that the question of how and whether to reprivatize Kryvorizhstal and other companies could be an unwelcome...
...keep teaching at the schoolhouse she built. The larger lessons of her traumatic experience, however, seem to have gone unlearned. - By Tim McGirk Lessons in Law BRITAIN A 16-year-old Muslim schoolgirl won the right to wear the all-enveloping jilbab in class, with London's Court of Appeal ruling that a ban on the garment by her school in central England was an infringement of the European Convention on Human Rights. But legal experts predicted that the judgment will have no effect on a ban in France on students displaying conspicuous symbols of religious faith, as the European...
...More Bale Outs WTO appeal judges declared subsidies to U.S. cotton growers, worth about $2.7 billion in 2003, illegal. The verdict will likely inspire other challenges to U.S. and E.U. trade subsidies...
...Cool, the lackluster sequel to Get Shorty—both based on titular novels written by Elmore Leonard—orbits around the galaxy of popular stars clustered by production company MGM. It would seem that they have strategically selected performers to appeal to the broadest range of audiences. For every racial and social minority—aging rockers, young R&B and rap fans, 70s movie fans, gay men, WWF fans/closeted gay men—there are a few good men towards whom they can gravitate. The problem with that strategy is the movie MGM saddled with that burden?...