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Last month, when the Democratic National Committee (DNC) announced its top ten choices for the location of its next national convention, it was heartening to hear that Boston had made the cut. Boston is a city that brings together the unions, students, traditional liberals and immigrant base that the Democrats...
A rematch with George W. Bush seems to be what Al Gore has in mind. At a recent dinner for Democratic fund raisers in Manhattan, Gore ripped into Bush's handling of the presidency. The President's philosophy is "speak loudly and carry a small stick," he said. Fund raiser...
President Bush nominated Judge Charles Pickering to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Pickering, Bush’s first abortion idealogue to come before the Judiciary Comittee, has a history of opposition to women’s rights: As a state senator, he voted for a...
Nearly all of the e-waste at Guiyu is imported from America and Japan. But the U.S. government isn't liable for the damage, says Bob Tonetti, a senior scientist for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Under an agreement called the Basel Convention, most of the world's developed nations...
"Five spoons dip into the pot, but how many spoonfuls are there?" mused a caviar exporter quoted by an official of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, known as CITES. Holding those spoons as they divide the Caspian's wild sturgeon with Iran are Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and...