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Bush's political advisers decided to keep Ashcroft under wraps, away from the press. "They hope that if they don't have John talk," says an Ashcroft partisan, "the conversation will cease." But it had already become clear that Ashcroft's vote count had fallen from 70 to around 60 as the interest groups on the left were able to concentrate their fire on him. G.O.P. leader Trent Lott announced last week that all 50 Senate Republicans were lined up to confirm--it takes only a simple majority--but that was as much a brave hope as a real prediction...
...first half-century, Pentecostalism understood itself as the faith from across the tracks. Its members were poor, and its emotiveness put off some other conservative Christians. A millennial faith that believed the Second Coming was imminent, it frowned on political participation. "Why would someone meddle in this fallen world, which is going to be judged and displaced anyway when the Lord comes?" says Harvard's Harvey Cox, author of Fire from Heaven, a study of the faith, paraphrasing their argument. But the faith's isolation decreased as the century progressed, thanks in part to the exertions of J. Robert Ashcroft...
Silva has fallen a long way in one week since shutting out No. 1 Dartmouth. Following that pinnacle, she has dropped four straight, including a 12-0 humbling at No. 2 Minnesota-Duluth and Friday night's debacle...
...value of Internet stocks have fallen through the floor. This is going to put a damper over the Internet sector and Wall Street, which is down already 10 percent from what it was a year ago," Mankiw said...
Free-trade advocates say that globalization is an important reason for the recent economic expansion. As trade barriers have fallen, goods have moved around the world more efficiently and, they say, both producers and consumers have benefited. But globalization also brings risks. When the world was bigger and countries were less interdependent, there were more checks against worldwide recession...