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Rowley half-jokingly asks everyone, from fellow agents to college students, if they'll come buy a burger from her one day if she gets fired. But she cannot seem to stop herself from going on to pitch those students on the job opportunities at the bureau. And she continues to send e-mails to headquarters suggesting investigative and legal strategies. She has sent about a dozen since her notorious memo. None have received a substantive response. "I'm sure they think I'm crazy Coleen Rowley," she says...
...greatest strides up from the bottom, however, have been made in race relations, due to the implementation of Civil Rights laws - all of which Lott has opposed. The term New Mississippi is not just a PR gambit - it's real. Walk into a Burger King or K-Mart or Ole Miss Library and you'll see blacks and whites eating, shopping and studying together. "Forty years ago when the state was first integrated, blacks had no rights," veteran journalist Curtis Wilke recently noted. "Today they politically control the Delta. White people are living with that reality just fine. Today nobody...
...reverse Ronald’s retreat. Unfortunately, any relief legislation will likely be snagged up in partisan pettiness. Republicans, who hate everything associated with Bill Clinton, will never lift a finger to help his favorite restaurant. While at the same time, the small Tory party will prefer the Burger King to the plebeian clown. And the legislation will lose feminist support unless there are matching funds for Wendy?...
...scrutiny for posing long-term hazards to children's health. At a time when childhood obesity is skyrocketing--there has been an almost threefold jump in the number of overweight teens since the 1970s--some school cafeterias look little different from food courts at the local mall. Many serve burgers and pizzas rife with full-fat meats and cheeses or simply turn the prep work over to franchises like Burger King and Papa John's, which have a burgeoning side business in catering school meals. "If nothing changes, a generation will be having heart bypasses by the time they...
...party that so often looks to slash layers from the federal government then support the creation of an entirely new cabinet department? Conservatives are torn on the creation of this department because it forces them to choose between protection against terrorism and small government, according to Chris J. Burger, a spokesperson for the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative think tank. “If the private sector were able to solve these problems, that would be great, but this is something we have to do,” he said...