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...morning after the election that what carried Lieutenant Governor Tim Kaine to victory--in a state that hasn't voted for a Democrat for President since L.B.J.--was Warner's popularity. Part of it is style: Warner won narrowly in 2001 by courting gun owners and working the NASCAR circuit, even though he grew up in the New England state of Connecticut and is worth some $200 million. But the real political miracle is the fact that Virginians have only grown to love him more as he has slashed popular programs and raised taxes...
Pyongyang is not a key stopover on the business-traveler circuit. There's no cushy InterContinental, and the brutal, hermetic regime that runs the place doesn't lure much foreign investment. But the communist state does see a trickle of capitalists, from telecom engineers to bottled-water vendors. And, perhaps most surprisingly, animators. North Korea has some of the world's cheapest cartoonists, typically specialists in the art of propaganda. In 2001 French-Canadian Guy Delisle went to Pyongyang to manage the production of an animated preschool special for French television. "It was based on children's books with rabbits...
While Danica Patrick's performance at the Indianapolis 500 reinvigorated fan interest in open-wheel racing, NASCAR, the more popular circuit, is grooming a female phenom of its own. Erin Crocker, 24, started racing when she was 7 and last year became the first woman to win a grueling World of Outlaws sprint-car race. She then signed with legendary NASCAR crew chief Ray Evernham, who guided Jeff Gordon to three Winston Cup titles. Though Crocker has risen quickly through the stock-car ranks, Evernham won't rush his prized talent. He had scheduled Crocker to drive full time...
...comparison is misleading. Throughout Alito's career--from his time as an Assistant Solicitor General and Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Reagan Administration to his three years as a federal prosecutor in New Jersey to the past 15 years as a Newark-based judge on the Third Circuit Appeals Court--he has earned a reputation as the antithesis of the brash, grating Scalia. "He's conservative, but he's not a zealot at all," says Paul Fishman, a Democrat and attorney from New York City, who worked under Alito at the U.S. Attorney's office in New Jersey, when...
...plaintiffs in race and sex discrimination cases. He also wrote an opinion in which he found it permissible for a prosecutor, trying a black man for murder, to assemble an all-white jury by striking all the prospective black jurors.On gun control, Judge Alito dissented from a third Circuit ruling that allowed Congress, under the Commerce Clause, to restrict possession and sale of machine guns at gun shows. On environmental protections, Alito blocked the right of citizens to take polluters to court under the Clean Water Act, and he threw out a $2.6 million fine against a chemical company...