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...comment caused an uproar because it seemed to repeat an old slur that Jews bring anti-Semitism on themselves. Möllemann later apologized to Jewish leaders, but the controversy continues to simmer. It's not clear from opinion polls whether the Möllemann flap will help or hinder the FDP in September's elections. When asked whether they support current Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer or Westerwelle for the job, 69% of respondents chose Fischer. Embarrassingly, even 57% of FDP supporters said they preferred Fischer
...people who lived on these lands were measured too. Would the Indians help or hinder the march of progress? That was always the first question in the captains' minds as they rounded a bend in the river and saw smoke, or glimpsed a horseman watching from a bluff. The noble cross-cultural moments came later. Before Clark helped a teenage Sacagawea give birth inside a wintry fort, and before she repaid him a thousand times over by arranging with her Shoshone kinsmen for the expedition's passage over the Rockies, Lewis drew his sword against the Teton Sioux as they...
...ease the tensions developing over the prosecution of Zacarias Moussaoui, the French Moroccan due to go on trial in October for conspiracy in the Sept. 11 attacks. Ashcroft's expected decision to seek the death penalty in the case has inflamed European opponents of capital punishment and could hinder the efforts to obtain more evidence about Moussaoui's association with Muslim radicals in Europe...
...half years while the ringleader got off with no jail time at all. In the end, Pickering sentenced the man to 27 months in prison, saying, “the type of conduct that you exhibited cannot and will not be tolerated...You did that which does hinder good race relations and was a despicable...
With those deals, Harvard has prepared only a small percentage of its land. Railroads, housing projects, and industrial tenants still hinder development on the largest contiguous patches...