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...John C. Rankin, president of the Theological Education Institute in Hartford, argued that gay marriage would undermine the moral and religious foundations of American society, while Arline Isaacson, co-chair of the Massachusetts Gay & Lesbian Political Caucus, focused on marriage as a “legal gateway” to essential rights...
Ayatullah Sistani first insisted on a speeded-up timetable for elections. Then in December he brushed aside Bremer's scheme to choose interim rulers through a complicated U.S.-run caucus system and demanded immediate elections. Shi'ites, constituting 60% of the population, expect to dominate any vote. After rugged haggling that brought in the U.N. as an intermediary, the U.S. agreed that elections projected for late 2005 would be pushed forward...
...time Aristide's plane touched down in the Central African Republic, however, he was not sounding philosophical. He accused the Americans of carrying out a "geopolitical kidnapping," claiming he had been forced out by a U.S.-led "coup d'etat." Members of the U.S. Congressional Black Caucus have called for an investigation, but Secretary of State Colin Powell dismissed the allegations as "absurd...
...Chief Petty Officer Del Sandusky talking about Kerry?s undaunted courage on TV campaign commercials or PCF-44?s William Zaladonis explaining how Kerry never backed down, they?ve been a united front. Nobody has campaigned harder for Kerry than his crewmates. Kerry?s surprise victories in the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary were, in part, a tribute to their unshakable conviction that Kerry was a born leader...
...pulled resources from other states and sent them to the Midwest. "We were running in Iowa an absolutely classic caucus operation," she says. "We were just methodically finding our voters and getting them to the polls." But that meant leaving Kerry's New Hampshire backyard nearly unattended, except for appearances by his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry and his campaign chairwoman, former New Hampshire Governor Jeanne Shaheen. It wasn't easy to watch Kerry drop steadily in the public polls in a state that everyone knew he needed to win. Staff members on the floor below could hear Cahill's reaction...