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...Public Citizen, a non-profit watchdog organization founded by Ralph Nader, vocally opposed Graham’s nomination and lobbied senators against...
...Joan B. Claybrook, the president of Public Citizen, said that she thought the Democrats in question were reluctant to oppose Bush’s nominee and that Republicans felt duty-bound to back Bush...
...true, and the story playing out this week in New York raises some fundamental questions: What are a priest's responsibilities in such a case? What does it mean to be a member of good standing in your profession, versus what it takes to be a good citizen? And, maybe most important, what would...
...Macedonia has long been treated by the West as the model democratic citizen among the reprobate states and provinces of the former Yugoslavia. It was commended for its support of NATO during the Kosovo conflict, and had looked likely to be the first of the former Yugoslavian territories to make it into the European Union. When President Boris Trajkovski visited the White House in March this year, he and President Bush prayed together. And NATO's initial response to the Albanian insurgency was to dismiss the NLA as "murderers in the hills" (to quote the organization's secretary general, Lord...
European and Japanese renewable-energy firms have prospered in part thanks to citizen commitment and government subsidies far more generous than those available to U.S. firms. A greater advantage for the foreign firms, however, is the higher price charged in their home countries for electricity generated by fossil fuels. Governments in Europe and Japan heavily tax oil, gas and coal to capture some of the hidden costs--from pollution and global warming to vehicular traffic--of consuming it. In the U.S., solar and wind energy have looked less attractive--at least until recently when fuel-generated electricity prices spiked...