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...said. He claimed that two dozen or so other House Republicans were thinking the same way. If just 20 Republicans held back their votes, Gingrich would be finished. Prominent conservatives like columnist William Safire and Judge Robert Bork were glumly suggesting that Gingrich would be doing the party a favor if he stepped aside. With every hope of prolonging the agony, Democrats were clamoring for a postponement of the vote for Speaker until after all the facts were made public. Every one of them remembered how Gingrich tormented Speaker Jim Wright until he resigned over ethics charges...
...federal jury in Greensboro, North Carolina, found in Food Lion's favor. This week the jury is expected to determine just how much ABC should be punished, a decision that news organizations around the country are awaiting with trepidation. Journalists see the case as a sort of referendum on the undercover reporting tactics that have become commonplace in an era when there is a different TV newsmagazine show on almost every night of the week--not to mention all the local news shows exposing shady auto mechanics during ratings sweeps...
...regular rush-hour traffic will look like a decade from now as we continue to build more cars than mass-transit vehicles and more highways than mass-transit infrastructure. The Bush Administration seems to be in denial about global warming, as it persists in ignoring the Kyoto agreement in favor of Big Business. But warning signals from nature in the form of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita cannot be ignored. Max Desouza Toronto For decades scientists, environmentalists and meteorologists have been saying that human-generated pollution is producing global warming that is altering the weather. Now it appears it might also...
...lettered with the message “U.S. and Salvadoran Troops out of Iraq,” demonstrator Alexis Stoumbelis said that she is “extremely concerned about the military and the fact that [Saca] feels the need to send troops to Iraq just to stay in favor of the U.S. government.” “The government of El Salvador is very much in league with the U.S. government, and is working with Bush to suppress Salvadoran people,” Stewart said, elaborating on Stroumbelis’ comments. One of the examples Stewart cited...
...says he has now been branded a "black hand" by provincial party officials?the epithet used for labor leaders of the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square. His fall from favor underscores the frictions that accompany China's uneven efforts to modernize. While the country has progressed economically, its authoritarian government has not made the same progress in building open and accessible political and legal institutions. Concerned about a rise in mass protests, Beijing continues to promise change. An annual meeting of the party's Central Committee last week concluded with calls for "social harmony" and a commitment to "ruling...