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...Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund put it, but maintaining a skeleton, the administration can claim it is holding firm on protections even as it offers concessions to industry. "This is clearly an effort to split the difference," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Carney. "Bush has taken a lot of flak for his decisions on arsenic and Kyoto, for example. The White House wants very much to show Bush in a greener light, but the President also has a lot of friends who are powerful western governors and members of the logging and mining industry...
Miss Israel, ILANIT LEVY, won't catch any flak in the Miss Universe competition May 11--though she may get some piercing stares from the other contestants in Puerto Rico. The blond 18-year-old from Haifa, a soldier in the Israeli army, plans to wear a bulletproof gown created by Tel Aviv designer Galit Levi. The silk animal-print dress, shown here on Levy, is covered with an Israeli army-issue flak jacket embroidered with diamonds and pearls for a "softer look." The designer wants to send a message that everyday life should go on despite the latest outbreaks...
...Jane Swift only gets flak for suggesting that she’ll work from home after she gives birth (which will likely happen in June). Joe Fitzgerald, a columnist for the Boston Herald, is particularly critical of Swift, and belittles her efforts by suggesting that running the state from home would be like “taking a correspondence course.” And even Secretary of State William Galvin went on the record criticizing Swift, telling the Herald that “it remains to be seen” whether Swift can balance motherhood and being governor...
Swift doesn’t deserve the flak she’s getting. Young voters—and college students in particular—should support Swift, in the hope that her experience will convince other young, family-minded politicos to enter politics. Our system will be much better...
...nast also took flak for opposing the mass killing of animals to help support beef prices during the bse crisis. But after being lobbied by farmers, suffering from a 50% collapse of beef consumption in just two months, and officials from other countries, she reluctantly agreed to the slaughter. "We were relieved," said Michael Lohse of the German Farmers' Association. "The situation in the stables is a catastrophe...