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John S. McCain's crusade for the heart and soul of the Republican party faces a cross-roads today. Outside of New England, where he leads in nearly every state poll, he must prove to Republican voters that his centrist rhetoric does not diminish his conservative credentials...
...department's heads vowed to accept the reforms detailed in the Christopher Report, which was compiled by a public-private panel following the Rodney King beating. One portion of the report called for "a new standard of accountability," and predicted that "ugly incidents will not diminish until ranking officers know they will be held responsible for what happens in their sector, whether or not they personally participate." Yet despite LAPD commissioner Bernard Parks' 1998 announcement that the department had met all of the Christopher Report's recommendations, the new report concludes that "regardless of the source, complaints all seemed...
With that, the sun finally shone on Prestifilippo at Boston's grandest tournament. Those vacant canary seats were not the setting Prestifilippo imagined for his only win, but it didn't diminish the significance...
Robert Stepto, the acting head of the Afro-American studies program at Yale, in an interview with Yale Daily News, called Gates a "saboteur and even a provocateur." Stepto said Gates is still angry that he was once denied tenure at Yale and is trying to diminish the reputation of the Yale program...
...attentively watch Austrian political developments and sustain close diplomatic ties so that, in the case that Haider ever tries to subvert democracy in the name of fascist governance, the E.U. still has political leverage with the Austrian government. Isolating Austria will only allow hatred and xenophobia to ferment and diminish the chances of diplomatically forestalling political crisis should the Austrian government ever actually turn to undemocratic practices...