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...money while in office. Agnew sued the Justice Department and TIME among others, charging them with libel. On the day TIME attorneys were to answer a subpoena in that case, Agnew resigned his office rather than face prosecution. Felt, because of his high rank in the bureau and his dismay at the criminality in the White House, was uniquely able to provide TIME with such information. Still, Woodward and Bernstein were clearly the most distinguished of the Watergate reporters, and their early attention to the story was critical to the failure of Nixon's cover-up. Their competitors, including those...
...main cause of climate change, is indeed a pollutant under the federal Clean Air Act and therefore needs to be regulated by the EPA. In the months since that landmark decision, the EPA - with the support of the Bush Administration - has doggedly refuse to regulate CO2, much to the dismay of environmentalists. The board's decision will force the EPA to consider CO2 when issuing permits for new power plants, potentially making it - at least in the short-term - all but impossible to certify new coal power plants. That's because the EPA will need to reconfigure its rules...
Cambridge residents expressed disbelief and dismay at the planned closing of the Oliver Farnum Senior Health Care Center during a community meeting held last night to discuss the Cambridge Health Alliance’s strategic plan...
Prompting celebration among conservative activists and dismay among proponents of gay rights, in Florida, 62% of voters cast their ballots in favor of Amendment 2, which also limits the legal definition of marriage to the union between "one man and one woman as husband and wife." The initiative, sponsored by the conservative organization Florida4Marriage, declares that "no other legal union that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof shall be valid or recognized...
...confession of such a deliberate heresy to our civic religion provokes shock, dismay, and sometimes hostility among even its weakest adherents. They accuse me of forfeiting one of my most important rights. Public service announcements equate not voting with not caring about the future of the country. I have been told that I am helping to undermine our democratic institutions...