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...panelist, Tim Roemer, a Democrat who just retired from Congress, complained in a statement he issued last month as a member of the House-Senate panel that the congressional probe suffered because such officials as Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, John Ashcroft and Condoleezza Rice "were not questioned directly about issues related to the Sept. 11 attacks." A Rumsfeld spokesman refused to "speculate on what participation will be extended" to the commission...
...claim that he has been campaigning against child porn for some time. But investigators will want to know if he was aware when he posted the treatise that the porn site he had visited had been busted. The Landslide trial in August 2001 was well publicized. Attorney General John Ashcroft himself announced it to the press. Townshend's Web account could be a self-serving effort to pre-empt suspicion. It could also turn out that his motives are more mixed than even he knows. If he was abused as a child, could he separate his revulsion at child pornography...
When pro-choice activists agonize over the teetering support for reproductive rights, they don't just mention the names George W. Bush and John Ashcroft. High on their worry list are people like Katie Schiller, 19, a government major at the University of Texas at Austin. Like many in her age group, she leans left on social issues such as the death penalty and gay rights. But she is deeply torn about abortion. Yes, she supports a woman's right to choose, but only in tightly prescribed instances, such as if a woman is raped or if a child might...
...Bauer noted, the White House strategy seems to be to push many of its abortion actions under the radar, where they will not be noticed by moderate women voters. True, Bush made headlines with his nomination of the staunchly evangelical, antiabortion John Ashcroft for Attorney General and the decision not to provide taxpayer funds to develop additional fetal-stem-cell lines for medical research. But other moves barely made a ripple by comparison. A year ago, the Administration filed a brief supporting Ohio's partial-birth-abortion ban in an appellate court (not waiting, as it normally would...
...Warhol? We think so, too. Even after your visit to the gift shop, there's plenty to see at the Whitney, from avant-garde lawn sculptures to totally incomprehensible oil paintings. Note to party leaders: Please alert Museum staff well ahead of time in the event that John Ashcroft wishes to pay a visit. Staff will require at least a week for ordering and positioning special opaque draping materials...