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...Force One rides will go through him." A Bush endorsement could short-circuit the nominating process, just as Bill Clinton's support of Al Gore gave Gore a decided edge in 2000. Or the President could stay steadfastly neutral, as Reagan did in 1988, when his Vice President, George Herbert Walker Bush, faced five challengers and almost lost the nomination...
...with abusing its dominant position. Without Novell and the CCIA, U.S. software firm RealNetworks remains the only major supporter of the Commission. Is the E.U.'s case damaged? Withdrawing "for commercial reasons won't change the [appeal court's] position whatsoever," predicts Craig Pouncey, managing partner at law firm Herbert Smith in Brussels. Microsoft surely won't settle for that. By Adam Smith...
According to the Miami Herald, Florida attempted to revive its felon purge lists in 2004, again rife with inaccuracy, again disproportionately disenfranchising black voters. By the far the worst tactic was revealed by New York Times columnist Bob Herbert, who exposed that the state of Florida was “investigating” get-out-the-vote drives among blacks in Orlando by sending armed police officers into the homes of mostly elderly, African-American citizens who had filed absentee ballots. For someone to authorize the intimidation and terrorization of poor elderly black women who came...
Club officials apparently hoped to praise staff members Mario Metullus and Herbert Campbell for rummaging through a dumpster to retrieve a member’s wayward piece of jewelry (which better have been the Hope Diamond). But in an ill-conceived posting on the club’s website, somebody who should have known better placed the heading, “Dumpster Diving,” over a picture of the two conspicuously African American employees...
...campaigns than you would expect in a hotly contested school-board race. In the town of Portsmouth in Ohio's depressed southeastern corner, the turnout was high when President Bush visited last month. He was, after all, the first President that Portsmouth's citizens had seen in person since Herbert Hoover in 1932. Thousands cheered Kerry at his rally in Newark, the seat of Licking County. They were celebrating what local records said was the first visit to the town by a presidential candidate since William Henry Harrison came in 1840. Kerry skipped Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's speech...