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That sort of hypocrisy helps explain why the Joint Center recently found that only 62% of blacks ages 18 to 35 identify themselves as Democrats, compared with more than 80% of blacks older than 35. So far, only 6% of younger blacks say they are Republicans, but those numbers could grow if Republicans made a real effort to expand their outreach. One step would be for Bill Frist, Lott's successor as Senate Republican leader, to sit down with Henderson and the Congressional Black Caucus to find areas of agreement. It's probably too much to expect the Republicans...
...blithely naive sentiments of youth, perhaps, but they help to explain why the South Korean government seems to be running interference for Pyongyang these days. Since admitting in October that it has a covert nuclear-weapons program, North Korea has consistently upped the pressure to force the U.S. into talks, restarting a mothballed reactor that could produce weapons material in violation of international accords and evicting International Atomic Energy Agency monitors. The latest provocation came last week, when the North announced it was pulling out of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, the Magna Carta of international efforts to stem the spread...
This article is designed to explain how to achieve the third answer to this perplexing problem by the use of the vague generality, the artful equivocation and the overpowering assumption...
...efforts to ease pressure on mobsters in exchange for electoral support. Giuffrè said that current top Mob boss Bernardo Provenzano told him that they "were in good hands" with Dell'Utri, who was a "serious and trustworthy person" and was close to Berlusconi. If true, the allegations might explain the Berlusconi coalition's clean sweep of Sicily's 61 Parliament seats in the 2001 elections. In his court testimony, Giuffrè went on to say that during the late 1970s, top Mob boss Stefano Bontade used to visit Berlusconi at the businessman's villa on the outskirts of Milan...
...Once I explain Herakles to refugees, they are curious, but Peter does all the magic,” she says. “No one has said no. He’s infected them with belief in the project...