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...Democrats' relative silence on all this has been prudent, but telling. Their implicit position has been to err toward law. "The notion that Florida failed to do its job in the Schiavo case is wrong," said Congressman Barney Frank, one of the few Democrats willing to speak about the case. "Procedurally, there was a great deal of due process." Frank was right, but it was a curiously sterile pronouncement, bereft of the Congressman's usual raucous humanity. It exemplified the Democratic Party's recent overdependence on legal process, a culture of law that has supplanted legislative consideration of vexing social...
...DIED. FRANK PERDUE, 84, folksy chicken tycoon; in Salisbury, Md.; of an undisclosed ailment. Perdue helped his father turn the family's chicken-raising business into a brand-name poultry powerhouse. His company's ubiquitous TV ads featured a crusty Perdue uttering the slogan "It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken," and sales took wing, from $56 million in 1970 to more than $1.2 billion in 1991, when he turned over daily operations of the company...
...FRANK BUONO...
...behind those of the men's tour. Two years ago, everyone was talking about teen phenom Michelle Wie, but at 15 she's still struggling to find consistency. Why wait for Wie to become the "next Tiger" when Sorenstam is perhaps playing above Tiger's level now? --By Mitch Frank...
...tree, put it in the ground and invite their friends over for dinner that night." And even if you're willing to pay, finding the kind of tree you want can be tough, with highly prized breeds in short supply. "People are more sophisticated," says Nancy Buley of J. Frank Schmidt & Son in Oregon, which ships more than 3 million trees annually to nurseries across the country. "They're looking at sustainable landscape design and low-maintenance trees." The good news: according to Moon Nurseries in Maryland, look-alike species can often be found. They sometimes even cost less...