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With the EPA's clout slackening, private attorneys are moving in. At Tar Creek, lawyers are suing seven mining companies on behalf of scores of lead-exposed children. A separate suit demanding a cleanup was filed by the Quapaw Indians, whose land was leased for the mines. And environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has joined a class action to force companies to relocate the population of two polluted towns, Picher and Cardin. Court papers suggest that mining executives knew as early as the 1930s that the contaminated dust was dangerous but sought to, in their words, "dissuade" the government from...
...George W. Bush's National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice spends more time with the President than anyone else in the West Wing. But her clout is more the product of experience than ideology. In the early days of Bush's term, she tutored the President and quietly helped set his priorities. More recently, she has taken the lead on several make-or-break challenges, from reviving the moribund Arab-Israeli peace plan to overseeing arrangements for handing over power in Iraq. Though others may call the shots, Rice's proximity to power has made her the foreign-policy voice...
Though her post-Oscar movies have not been big hits, her new willingness to experiment is being noticed. She gets labeled an ice queen but is more daring than any of her contemporaries of similar box-office clout. Can you see Julia Roberts making a movie as limited in its appeal as Dogville? Kidman is not the first star to play down her beauty for a role, but her bold choices have set a new bar for Hollywood actresses. And now as a producer (In the Cut), she's creating juicy roles for more of them...
...will guillotine the treaty first, making a British vote academic. But there is part of Blair that may relish this fight. He has long spoken of wanting to lead Britain to the "heart of Europe" - whose 10 new members, generally free-market and pro-American, should give Britain added clout. And a referendum triumph would be a high note on which to end almost a decade in office. It would stun many British Euro- skeptics to know that on the Continent, opponents of the constitution are likely to complain not that it will enhance the powers of interfering left-wing...
...angry hordes are getting to vote. First-round regional voting on March 21 was followed by run-off contests early this week in which the Socialists looked set to do at least as well the first time around. When the voting is finally over, Raffarin may not have the clout to mount his promised assault on France's beloved but money-leaking social-security and health-insurance schemes. Arguing that reform must find a "fair balance between collective assistance and individual responsibility" in financing health costs, Raffarin has warned that "another four years of doing nothing risks increasing the service...