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...Hastert, on the House’s support for Bush’s rendition program. According to Jeffries, Speaker Hastert “believes that suspected terrorists should be sent back to their home countries” because “U.S. taxpayers should not necessarily be on the hook for their judicial and incarceration costs.” Herbert was flabbergasted by the utter ignorance and moral bankruptcy that Jeffries’ response reflects, as should anyone who is reasonably informed on the issue...
...about love and identity, maybe it's because they didn't have the option of accepting the standard assumptions. Growing up gay, says Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball, "you have a pretty deeply ingrained sense of being an outsider. You don't swallow the mythology of pop culture hook, line and sinker because you know it's not true, for you, anyway...
...fuzzy. State funding is still OK, said Kroes, as long as it is "necessary to fulfill a task in the public interest." To determine that, Kroes demanded more detail on how all three governments fund their channels. How do the BBC's far-reaching online services stay off the hook? The Beeb quietly dumped its more commercial sites last year, and the British government's restructuring plan for the BBC, published last week, waxed lyrical on "transparency." "It's a judgement call," says Nicholas Francis of competitive market watchers Reckon. "BBC Online seems to fit in with where...
...Just because other professions might be better or worse doesn’t let us off the hook,” she said. “I think we can do better...
...little more than a p.r. move, and says it's too early for Rome to consider lifting the cap. And onerous put options may yet force EDF to exit Italy. But Italian utilities might want to buy a piece of Italenergia and that "could get the French off the hook," says the exec. Still, if that eases pressure to reform, consumers may lose; Fabrizio De Candia, European power director at Cambridge Energy Research Associates in Paris, says Italian power prices are up to 40% higher than Western Europe's average. Now that's a real shock. - With reporting by Jeff...