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...difficult to talk about conservation when people are still trying to find a place to live," Nando says. "It was easier to speak about the environment when people were not so traumatized." After all, she and a handful of colleagues at FFI work in Calang, a district of Aceh where most of the homes and businesses were flattened by the tsunami, where half of all residents were killed, where survivors are still struggling to make enough money to put rice and fish on the table...
...directive] opposed full Turkish membership of the E.U., for example, and has taken a tough line on immigration. Even so, said Alkassar, the cdu has "some basic views that I consider my own." Those views are not precisely the Christian ones of the party's name - Alkassar, now a district councillor for the cdu in the small university town of Homburg, is a Muslim. But for Alkassar and many like him, identifying with a conservative Christian party is preferable to the secular alternative. "I believe in the importance of God and faith," he says. Such insistence that religion - any religion...
...were surprised to hear that President George W. Bush would travel to northeastern California this week to raise an estimated $500,000 for Republican incumbent Representative John Doolittle. Doolittle hasn't won less than 60% of the vote since 1992, and Republicans outnumber Democrats 48% to 30% in his district. So why spend valuable time and fund-raising muscle on a man who should be a sure thing? One simple answer: Jack Abramoff...
...G.O.P. write-in candidate Shelley Sekula-Gibbs. In southeastern Ohio, former House Administration Committee chairman Bob Ney is retiring after pleading guilty last month to trading favors for campaign contributions from Abramoff. But his handpicked replacement, Joy Padgett, can't shake the taint of scandal. Ney's solidly Republican district favored Bush by 14 percentage points in 2004 but is now polling anywhere from 2% to 14% in favor of Democrat Zack Space...
...Abramoff, are lining their pockets at constituents' expense. Doolittle's spokesman Richard Robinson admits he faces a "tough challenge." All the same, Democrats in Washington at first paid Brown no attention. "They told me, 'We're only going to believe it if you can raise money in the district and if you do a poll that shows you're in the running,'" Brown says. He says he promptly raised $600,000 and commissioned a poll that showed him closing to within 2 points of Doolittle. Now Brown says the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has agreed to send him a check...