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Lott's attitude and record on civil rights became a burning issue last week because of what he said at a 100th-birthday celebration for retiring Senator Strom Thurmond. Former majority leader Bob Dole had set the stage nicely with a tribute to the wizened, wheelchair-bound Thurmond, a South Carolinian born when "America had yet to honor the promise of equal opportunity for all our citizens." A fiery segregationist for most of his career, Thurmond eventually embraced the extension of the Voting Rights Act and the holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. and thus came to symbolize, Dole said...
...Dole's graceful words made it all the more jolting when Lott, who is scheduled to resume his old job as majority leader when the Senate convenes next month, took the podium and declared, "I want to say this about my state: when Strom Thurmond ran for President, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either...
...other hand, are much less stingy in how they dole out their affections, more prone to hear biological signals telling them to reproduce (or hook up) with as many people as possible. On this subconscious level, men try to hook up with the most attractive woman they...
...immigrant to the United States will received few benefits from the government and is quickly forced to look for work. Because jobs are available, he will usually manage to get by and integrate into society. In Europe, society is unable to offer jobs and instead puts immigrants on the dole. The largely Muslim immigrants from North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia receive enough government money to scrape by in miserable ghettos where the most entertaining thing to do all day is listen to the radical ranting of a local fundamentalist imam...
...Merrigan, chairman of the Democratic Business Council during the Clinton years. "People like Kerry and Gephardt, they get it. They'll still be competitive, but they'll be positive. If they aren't and they waste cash early, Bush and Rove will do to Democrats what Clinton did to Dole in '96." Or it could be 2002 redux. --With reporting by Matthew Cooper, Viveca Novak, Douglas Waller and Michael Weisskopf/Washington