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...Knight Fellowship director James R. Bettinger was less willing to chalk the decrease up to a simple ebb and flow of the applicant pool...
...Latvia, everything changed in 1994 when Russia withdrew the last of its military. Shortly afterward, the Latvian government began auctioning state-owned port facilities to American, Russian, Latvian and Norwegian companies. The port doubled in size as new container and passenger terminals sprang up. At its low ebb, in the early 1990s, only 1,000 ships entered the port each year; now more than 3,600 do so. Hermanis Cernovs, a naturalized Latvian born in Russia, has witnessed the transformation at first hand. When the Iron Curtain fell, he was commander of a Soviet nuclear submarine. Today, he organizes joint...
...influence of single-issue social conservatives in Republican Presidential politics is often exaggerated, however. The first choice of the Christian-right leadership rarely ends up being the party's nominee. And even in some of the most conservative states, the power of social issues may be on the ebb. Voters in South Dakota rejected a stern antiabortion law in November. A similar bill in Utah failed in early March. Kansas has restored Darwin to public school classrooms and tossed out the state attorney general who sought to examine abortion records...
...Congress. And the Democrats in Congress are finding Administration officials far more forthcoming with facts and figures about the conduct of the war in Iraq, in part because the White House knows that the next step - subpoenas - won't help their dwindling poll ratings. "There has been an ebb and flow," said Pennsylvania Republican Arlen Specter, "and the President has come to realize that the broader assertions of executive power had to be tempered...
...felt somehow anticlimactic after Bartosik’s earlier performance, prompting a nearby audience member to ask, “Is that it?”Traveling effortlessly through her technically demanding concerto, Bartosik had clearly internalized the music in the very marrow of her being. The ebb and flow of Grieg’s memorable themes traveled flawlessly from her fingers, and, as evidenced by the other musicians’ awed expressions, the orchestra was honored to be following in her considerable wake...