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...their hearts may be, for most Australians the environment seems to be a less pressing election issue than the economy or health care. Howard and Rudd are offering voters big tax cuts, and financial help with everything from first-home purchases to children's dentistry. Their rhetorical flourishes differ, but both are staking their political future on the belief that for now, at least, Australians fear storm clouds on the economic horizon more than their absence from the skies...
...diversity event that focused on the “interconnectedness of the human population.” The pair had sent cheek swabs to the Genographic Project, a National Geographic effort that aims to map humanity’s genetic journey through history using patterns of known mutations that differ among populations. The tests traced Castelo-Branco back to Spain, a short hop over the border from his homeland that came as no surprise. This was not the case for Sassanfar, whose lineage was traced to Northern Europe, an entirely different continent. “My family on my mother?...
Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin II wrote in an e-mailed statement that while tailgate regulations differ between the two schools, both share common goals and difficulties in hosting the event each year...
...esteem have replaced nearly five years of diplomatic disdain; and presidents George Bush and Nicolas Sarkozy may start having regular sleep-overs if they become any better friends. Beyond that, however, the views of Sarkozy's 26 hour courtship of Washington - and the Franco-American love-fest it provoked - differ in small but significant ways in the two countries...
Liberated from the Other Parties Michael Kinsley began his essay "Libertarians Rising" by offering what he acknowledged was an oversimplified contrast: Democrats are for Big Government, whereas Republicans are against it [Oct. 29]. But both parties are for Big Government; they merely differ in how they wish to use it. Democrats would legislate compassion. Republicans would legislate morality. Libertarians would legislate neither. That is the difference in a nutshell. Mark Hanley, SKAMANIA, WASH...