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Panlilio and the other captains recruited Royer by e-mail and he auditioned with the team last year. After some deliberation, the captains decided to hire the professional choreographer in the hopes of improving the squad and alleviating the burden on the captains. In previous years, captains were responsible for conducting practices and designing the dance moves of every performance, including the national competition...
...talk about his special brand of conservatism that cares for ordinary people and the environment, but once again he failed to follow through. It is the height of hypocrisy to pass a tax cut that supposedly benefits ordinary Americans, as Bush did last year, and then shift the tax burden of the Superfund to working class Americans later, as he is doing now. The Superfund was about justice; those who greedily polluted America’s natural resources had to pay. Now it seems that polluters can destroy our environment with impunity...
...atrophy, dependence on America to do the dirty work will deepen. But dependence breeds resentment on both sides, and already in Europe voices can be heard decrying America's go-it-alone interventionism. Across the Atlantic the notion of a feckless Europe unable and unwilling to share the security burden is taking hold. Europe talks loudly, it seems, but carries a very small stick...
...global decision making and undercut its role as a diplomatic mediator. "In a world where image is very important, we would be seen as selfish and arrogant," says Fran?ois Nordmann, the Swiss ambassador to international organizations. "It's time to have our say, to take responsibility, to share the burden carried by other nations...
...reported budget proposals don't come as a complete surprise; over the past few years, the burden of Superfund expenses slowly shifted away from corporations and over to taxpayers. Still, says Grant Cope, staff attorney at USPIRG, Bush's decision is a momentous shift that bodes ill for the future of Superfund...