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...declaring the polar bear threatened by global warming, the Bush Interior Department added a rule that limited the use of the ESA to curb greenhouse gas emissions. In other words, even though science says that global warming is directly hurting polar bears and man-made carbon emissions are the chief cause of global warming, Washington wouldn't be allowed to use the ESA to do anything about...
...secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President George H.W. Bush that Kemp began to realize political possibilities for Republicans committed to racial progress, said Scott Reed, his chief of staff at HUD. He championed public housing tenants over developers, even spending a night in a Philadelphia project to gain perspective. He pushed for urban enterprise zones that offered tax incentives to lure investment to blighted communities. "It generated headlines that were nontraditional for Republicans," said Reed, who went on to run Dole's 1996 campaign. "It gave him an opportunity to show Republicans that it works...
Should the politicians fail to agree on a new power sharing formula, prospects increase for a military takeover. While Army Chief of Staff General Ashfaq Kiyani - the most powerful man in Pakistan, who maintains his own close relationship with the U.S. - is said to have no appetite for political power, the spiraling social and political crisis could prompt him to oust the elected government and install an administration of technocrats. There's no sign of this happening yet, but it remains the only plausible alternative to either Zardari or Sharif. And, of course, the military has not exactly been gung...
...Cross and U.N. agencies have raised several alarms about civilian casualties - a U.N. document leaked last week estimated that more than 6,400 civilians have been killed in the last three months. But the Defense Secretary dismissed humanitarian concerns as "a ploy employed by some people to extricate [LTTE chief Vellupillai] Prabhakaran and his top leaders from the mess they had got into," the report said. Remaining firm in the face of international pressure - particularly from its former colonial power Britain - is an issue of national pride for the Sri Lankan government. "They don't want to be told what...
...Senior Administration officials briefing journalists on condition of anonymity at the White House hastened to add that, despite recent U.S. overtures to Zardari's chief political rival, opposition leader Nawaz Sharif, there was no question of changing horses midstream. "We are not abandoning or ... distancing ourselves from Zardari," an official said...