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The Liberals' next biennial convention isn't due until spring 2007, but insiders are already lobbying for a leadership confab as early as this fall. That would give would-be candidates less than six months to recruit delegates and build a campaign team--one reason that pressure is already building...
For almost 40 years, the aircraft carrier Clemenceau plied the world's seas as the flag bearer of the French navy, deploying off troubled coasts from Djibouti in 1974 to Yugoslavia in 1993. Last week the decommissioned 26,000-ton giant - stripped of guns and under an assumed name - was...
Davis first went on the ice when he was 6. His mother Cherie worked as a secretary for a lawyer who happened to be a speed-skating official and suggested that her son try the sport. Within two years, Davis was winning regional titles. Now 6 ft. 2 in., he...
There are plenty of possible reasons for what Robertson's spokeswoman referred to as his "apology". Belated civility, humility and public-relations savvy come to mind. Robertson may also have been heeding criticism back in the States, some of the most scathing from fellow evangelical leaders who suggested that he...
HALTED. The global trade in STURGEON CAVIAR; by the secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES); in Geneva. CITES, which sets annual limits for caviar-exporting countries, has refused to announce quotas for 2006, effectively prohibiting the trade. Sturgeon populations in the Caspian sea region, which...