Word: appointment
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...Swiss voters will go to the polls March 7 to decide whether each of the country's 26 cantons (similar to states) should be obligated to appoint a special attorney to represent pets and farm animals in court in cases of alleged abuse. The initiative is just one of many put before the electorate every year in Switzerland's unique brand of direct democracy, in which anyone can bring an issue up for a vote provided he or she has enough signatures on a petition. While some may grumble that the initiatives are, at times, trivial - animal lawyers being...
...electable, and no American President is ever going to appoint him to anything," says Kevin Sullivan, former White House press secretary under George W. Bush and now a p.r. consultant. "But the American public is very forgiving." Sullivan, who admits he'd never take Edwards on as a client, nevertheless had some advice: tell it first, tell it all and tell it yourself. The ship has sailed on a couple of those - unless of course, there are more skeletons in the Edwards' well-appointed closets. So even though some people are begging Edwards to just go away, he needs...