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...lets the ballot go ahead while a highly infectious disease restricts the movement of people as well as livestock. Draconian slaughter, perhaps, could contain and defeat the infection before May. But Labour's strength among rural voters, never great, had diminished over the party's drive to ban fox hunting and will plummet further with the cull. "There will be many tears in the British countryside today," said Ben Gill, president of the National Farmers Union. "Our farms should be starting to jump to life with newborn lambs and calves. Instead, many will feel that spring has been canceled...
...Within the E.U. itself, barriers were rising. Germany imposed an import ban on livestock, fresh or frozen meat and on most dairy products, not only from Britain - which in any case had banned exports when the outbreak began - but from France as well. At least a half dozen other European countries imposed checks and restrictions on French exports because of confirmed cases of foot-and-mouth in the western region of Mayenne. The bans, said Marc-Henri Cassagne, head of the organization that monitors animal health in France, "are abusive in their application to areas of France that have shown...
...cover of McCain inscribed "To my dear friend." Yet he has authored a rival bill that has emerged as the favorite disguise for those who want to look like reformers while leaving the system porous enough for Denise Rich to drive a pardon through. Hagel's proposal does not ban soft-money contributions but simply caps them at $120,000 per two-year cycle, though critics calculate that wealthy folks could still give half a million dollars. When I ask McCain why he can't talk some sense into his brother-in-arms, he says their differences run too deep...
...week's end, there were indications that McCain-Feingold could actually pass in a recognizable form. Even the staunchest opponents seemed to have softened their opposition to the bill's central provision, a ban on the unregulated "soft money" that has flooded the political system over the past decade, nearly half a billion dollars in the 2000 election cycle alone. What may have been a breakthrough came after McCain arranged a meeting with one of his foes - Nickles, the Senate's No. 2 Republican. "Tell the senator his friends are here," McCain told Nickles' secretary when he arrived. Their discussion...
...Victor D. Ban '04, of Dunster House...