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President Bush swatted away pesky mosquitoes Monday as he spoke to a crowd gathered in the muggy and endangered Florida Everglades. Unfortunately for the businessman recently turned "new environmentalist," his critics won?t be as easy to dismiss...
...Berlusconi's supporters, mindful of the fact that the Italian economy has lately performed less well than most in Europe, dismiss the criticisms of their neighbors. He is, they argue, a man who gets things done, who will bring the smack of firm government to a nation that seems to need it. (Margaret Thatcher endorsed Berlusconi, and no government smacked more firmly than hers.) It would be nice to reply that economic prosperity depends on the trappings of constitutional liberalism. And there are examples where that seems to be true. Since 1989, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic, the three...
...reality; the effect was to just sound dour. One sentence in particular - "conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy" - led to a wave of bad press and gave the administration's critics fresh ammunition to dismiss the plan as a sop to the oil, gas and coal industries. That characterization may have been an over-reaction, say critics, but why bait the enemy? Cheney's speech, says a senior administration official, "took a punch when it didn't need...
...These observations are not intended to dismiss the accreditation process as flawed, and indeed, it clearly fills a need for oversight of our healthcare providers. But aside from the conclusions that may be drawn from these data, the fact remains that a substantial proportion of students do not trust UHS. Even the most capable medical facility in the world is useless if nobody dares to get treatment from...
...Handspring Edge ($399), while nearly as small as the Vx, felt cheap. The stylus clips to the side in a way that seems vulnerable; it should be stored inside, where God intended your stylus to be. Harder to dismiss is the long-awaited m505 ($449) from Palm. Unlike my increasingly wimpy Vx, this baby offers a full-color display. But when I downloaded a few older color applications from the Net, they wouldn't run on the m505; apparently, its new operating system, Palm OS 4, didn't recognize them. Major points off for that...