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...billion tourism industry. But that is only one of the regime's problems. Long-simmering sectarian tensions erupted into rioting and street fighting between Muslim fundamentalists and Coptic Christians in Alexandria in mid-April. And police clashed last week in Cairo with demonstrators protesting disciplinary action against two high-court judges who alleged widespread vote-rigging in last November's parliamentary elections - an embarrassing episode for a government that has been urged by the Bush Administration to implement democratic reform. Mubarak, 78, has been in power for 25 years, and his anemic response to these crises is a worrying sign...
...billion tourism industry. But that is only one of the regime's problems. Long-simmering sectarian tensions erupted into rioting and street fighting between Muslim fundamentalists and Coptic Christians in Alexandria in mid-April. And police clashed last week in Cairo with demonstrators protesting disciplinary action against two high-court judges who alleged widespread vote rigging in last November's parliamentary elections--an embarrassing episode for a government that has been urged by the Bush Administration to implement democratic reform...
...Fried and Tribe are not newcomers to Supreme Court hearings. In 1987, Tribe played a key role in derailing the high-court nomination of conservative Judge Robert H. Bork. And in September, Fried testified in the confirmation hearings for Chief Justice John G. Roberts...
Fried also testified this past September in the confirmation hearings for Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr ’76. In 1987, Tribe played a key role in derailing the high-court nomination of conservative Judge Robert H. Bork. But at the close of hearings yesterday, Alito’s confirmation to the high court appeared very likely...
...three months earlier, Tribe had helped the Senate Democrats plan their drive to block a conservative judge, Robert H. Bork, from gaining a spot on the high-court bench. The professor played the role of “Judge Bork” in a practice session as then-Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Joseph R. Biden, Jr., D-Del., honed his cross-examination tactics, according to a 1987 Washington Post report. And Tribe “served as the keynote speaker for the opposition” at the Bork hearings, according to a New York Times report that same year...