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...voters who cited "moral values" as their top concern. Never mind the tizzy of soul searching it has provoked among party officials. (Why do churchgoers hate us? Is Howard Dean too godless to head the Democratic National Committee?) You can't even have a beer with a rank-and-file liberal these days without the conversation degenerating into paranoid fantasies about how evangelical leaders are at this very minute hunkered down in Bush überadviser Karl Rove's office plotting to institute an Old Testament theocracy overseen by Attorney General Jerry Falwell...
...island with 60 gallons a year--and why the powder was being shipped from Singapore, of all places. And nobody challenged a key discrepancy: the amount of debt disclosed on the firm's balance sheet was at odds, by as much as $2.6 billion, with the corporate data on file at the Italian central bank. In a submission to the Parma bankruptcy court on Nov. 1, Citigroup said it "did not know of Parmalat's real financial condition from the Bank of Italy Risk Register, Bloomberg, or at all. It was lied to repeatedly by Parmalat...
...times bigger than the spotted owl's, may have just begun. Industry groups plan to pressure next year's friendlier Congress to weaken the 30-year-old endangered-species law. Meanwhile, a score of conservation groups, including lawyers who fought the timber industry over the owl, are preparing to file suit to force a sage grouse listing. By law, such decisions must be based on science alone, but a leaked copy of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's synthesis of biological information shows extensive editing by an Interior Department political appointee. "The only science upon which the Administration based...
...tonight, while wandering around the room to procrastinate on my final night proofing FM, I pass by the dilapidated metal file cabinets along one wall. On top of them are two fishbowls: one plastic, one glass; one filled with water, the other not. Neither has any sign of life, and hasn’t for many months. This building is filled with people, I am reminded, who love what they do, who are driven by what they do and do it with such energy and focus that they have not enough of either faculty remaining to remember to feed...
...multiple, often intersecting, criteria,” Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby wrote in an e-mail. Kirby wrote that the administration takes professors’ teaching records “very seriously,” and student letters “are read when the file is discussed by the FAS Academic Deans...