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...lobbying corruption scandal engulfed the Capitol, told TIME that he will not seek reelection and will leave Congress within months. Taking defiant swipes at "the left" and the press, he said he feels "liberated" and vowed to pursue an aggressive speaking and organizing campaign aimed at promoting foster care, Republican candidates and a closer connection between religion and government...
...President, did you feel pressure to make staff changes?" The President was grinning noticeably as he ducked back into the Oval Office, as if to say: Let ?em holler! The replacement of Bush?s first chief of staff, Andrew H. Card Jr., with budget director Joshua B. Bolten may foster a badly needed sense of renewal and produce headlines about a shakeup. But this is the comfort food of staff changes - the replacement of a longtime family loyalist with someone who has been one of this President?s insiders since the Austin days...
...recovering drug addict is getting frantic in a run-down Niagara Falls motel as she and her ex-con spouse await word on whether they can regain custody of their baby daughter from foster care. In another room, a family man prepares for an interview for a job beneath his skills and dignity while coping with his failing marriage. And in the motel's seen-better-days Riverside Grill, a pregnant, recently widowed waitress considers performing in porn films to earn enough to support her unborn child. Interspersed in and among those stories: a kidnapping, a suicide attempt, a heart...
...work and has a girlfriend who is pushing for marriage. So we have the cop-with-something-to-prove and the mysterious British villain (actually, Clive Owen might be playing American—his accent is a bit hard to pin down); toss in a shady power broker (Jodie Foster), and you’ve got yourself a perfect Friday night crime thriller...
...made the restriction of abortion their ultimate goal—but it ignores that supporters of parental involvement requirements generally have more immediate and agreeable ends in mind. Meghan E. Grizzle ’07, President of Harvard Right to Life, articulated three primary objectives of these laws: to foster “more interaction between parents and their children,” to “drastically reduce the number of teenagers who have abortions,” and to minimize teenage pregnancy...