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Fortunately for the whales, the resolution isn't binding. The vote was 33 to 32 in favor, but it would have taken a 75% majority to overturn the ban. For whaling opponents, however, the vote was an ominous sign of Japan's power over the IWC--and of its willingness to use strong-arm tactics and not-so-subtle bribery to get its way. Japan has reportedly showered more than $100 million in aid in recent years on island nations that it has persuaded to back its pro-whaling positions...
...first, the Americans pursued the failed French dream: a sea-level passage through the mountains and jungles. In 1906 that plan was overruled in favor of damming the Chagres River to create a vast inland lake that could be entered through flights of locks at either end. That still meant cutting an eight-mile trench through the mountains. Every rainy season, mudslides wiped out months of work in a single moment...
...help settle a Pennsylvania miners' strike that threatened to create a winter scarcity of coal for heating. And when he ran for President in 1904, Roosevelt was not above accepting campaign contributions from the very businesses he was pressuring, though he was so careful not to show them any favor in his second term that Henry C. Frick, one of Rockefeller's lieutenants, was left to grumble, "We bought the son of a bitch, but he wouldn't stay bought...
...naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Eastern Europe, I commend Charles Krauthammer for his excellent Essay in favor of making English the official language of the U.S. [June 12]. Bilingualism might have the effect of dividing the country. I sometimes feel even more like a foreigner when I encounter people who have no intention of learning English and assimilating into this great society. Uncontrolled immigration is the major contributing factor to bilingualism. Although I am an immigrant, I still disapprove of our government's irresponsible immigration policy...
Menand and Simmons have both said in the past that they favor more prescriptions than the current proposal contains, but Menand said this week that it would not be clear whether the committee as a whole had a prescriptive tilt until the committee members had a chance to meet further...