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...University of California, Berkeley, has been synonymous with liberal causes. So the California Patriot comes as something of a surprise. On the walls of its editorial offices in a small house near the campus, campaign signs for nearly a dozen Republican candidates sit alongside a large American flag and a massive poster of George W. Bush. In its pages, articles argue against abortion and for war with Iraq. "At Berkeley's campus, you can only hear one side of any political or social debate, and it obviously tends to be the liberal side," says Tyler Monroe, 22, who started...
There is something creepy about cruising the darkening streets of Beijing sunk in the velvet upholstery of Madame Mao's 1970s Red Flag limousine. My feet propped up on the jump seat?just as Jiang Qing, Mao Zedong's third wife, liked to sit on her own tours of the capital?I sip champagne, nibble caviar and nod as my 20-year-old tour guide, Maggie, recounts tales of China's glorious communist past. As we pass Tiananmen Square and its floodlit portrait of Chairman Mao, I've suddenly had enough. Unable to take more of Maggie's garbled history...
...have years to address this," says Ross Cook, a spokesman for British Telecommunications (BT), a company whose pension-fund deficit is currently calculated at about $2.63 billion. But experts say the shortfalls should raise alarms about the long-term solvency of some schemes, and serve as a red flag to funds that continue to invest heavily in equities. In 2001, equities constituted 71% of the assets held by U.K. pension funds. Asks Allan Cook, technical director of the Accounting Standards Board, "Have they taken a risk which is ultimately very serious? Once you've made a loss...
Tracey is proud of his family, proud of the little boy who has an American flag sticking out of the roof of his little camouflage tent, who when he sees a gun at the toy store says, "Dad, can I get that weapon?" Even a child knows the drill, knows the words, and tonight in the living room, D'Artagnan sings them...
...Confederate Veterans, whose "Chief Aide-de-Camp" is Richard T. Hines, a politically active lobbyist from South Carolina. In that state's brutal 2000 Republican primary, Hines reportedly helped finance tens of thousands of letters blasting Bush rival John McCain for failing to support the flying of the Confederate flag over the state capitol. Hines declined to comment. --By Michael Weisskopf and Karen Tumulty