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Johnson's appeal is expected to be heard no later than April. There is a good chance that Judge Parslow's decision will not stand. "After all, the state law in California says that the birth mother is the mother," points out Jeremy Rifkin, ecological gadfly and co-chairman of the National Coalition Against Surrogacy, a group that has successfully lobbied in most of the 13 states that have laws banning commercial surrogacy...
...expand its base by vetoing a civil rights bill that would have made it easier for women and minorities to prove job discrimination. He unleashed his truculent chief of staff, John Sununu, on congressional Republicans who opposed him. Last week he worked behind the scenes to fire Ed Rollins, co-chairman of the G.O.P.'s congressional campaign committee. With enemies like Bush, the Democrats don't need friends...
India's indignation about foreign economic pressure has deep historical roots. In the mid-1700s the English East India Company subjugated the region and ran it as a private domain for a century. "The U.S. must realize it's a question of national pride," says H.S. Singhania, co-chairman of the Indo- U.S. Joint Business Council. "We cannot have the U.S. dictating our economic policy...
...that what the President meant? Edward Rollins, co-chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, estimated that a tax hike might cost the G.O.P. ten of its 176 seats in the House; 19 of the 45 Republican Senators signed a letter begging Bush in effect to "say it ain't so, Mr. President." The White House and its allies almost did. After a meeting with Bush, Alan Simpson of Wyoming, the assistant Senate Republican leader, insisted that the President was not talking about income taxes, for heaven's sake. Maybe excise taxes, or energy taxes, or a kind of national...
...Workers union that the secret behind Nordstrom's service is grueling pressure to produce sales. The union provided testimony from some former employees who complained of ulcers and 15-hour stretches of work without breaks. Nordstrom acknowledges its hard-driving culture but contends that the claims are exaggerated. Says co-chairman Jim Nordstrom: "Sometimes in an effort to increase production, management may overdo it. We're contest-motivated, and if that puts too much pressure on our people, I'll take the fall on this...