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...Bush's blunt comments came as a surprise after Powell's statements earlier in the week, and the new president's inexperience on the diplomatic stage was evident from the fact that White House aides immediately rushed to play cleanup. After all, the North Koreans are notoriously skittish and paranoid - not the sort of folks you want to accuse of cheating if you want to avoid unpredictable confrontations. So senior administration officials rushed to put out the message that there was, in fact, no evidence that North Korea is violating the terms of its only agreement with Washington - to freeze...
First, there was the prominent placement of environmental issues in Bush's nationally televised address to the joint session of Congress last month. He promised to accelerate the cleanup of toxic brownfields and proposed making a "major investment in conservation by fully funding the Land and Water Conservation Fund" (a fund under the auspices of the United States Department of Agriculture). Bush also pledged $4.9 billion in resources over five years for the upkeep of national parks, a remark ostensibly designed to sooth critics who feared that Bush would attempt to unravel Clinton's last-minute executive orders involving these...
...Missouri's lawyers argued the state did not want the KKK to have anything that looked like state-sanctioned publicity or approval, and that allowing the KKK to participate in the cleanup programs would violate the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which bans racial discrimination in programs that receive federal funds. Attorneys for the KKK insisted the case was an open-and-shut challenge to the First Amendment...
...little for the environment - toxic brownfield cleanup, and the land and water conservation fund, and $4.9 billion over five years for the national parks, but nothing about the Alaskan oilfields (that got rolled into the energy program...
Perhaps one should have expected such a project eventually to take shape. After all, the pornography industry is a constant force in the culture of New Haven, being the third-largest employer behind bail bondsmen and brownfield cleanup. And having little enough to offer in the life of the mind, Yalies have naturally turned to the life of the flesh instead--or, in the case of former Saybrook Master Antonio C. Lasaga, turned to thousands of pictures of naked little boys. Students here may have difficulty understanding such a mentality; at Harvard, the play-acting of a film such...