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...last straw? On Thursday, the Bush administration announced it would seek to eliminate a provision of the Endangered Species Act that allows private groups to sue the Department of the Interior to add plants and animals to the official "endangered" list (and therefore make them subject to federal protection). The move, criticized by one environmental leader as "an invitation to extinction," would maintain the right to sue on paper - but would discourage petitions by reducing the Interior Department's budget for dealing with citizen actions, leaving suits filed by tenacious groups or individuals languishing on dusty shelves...
...inherited a year ago from Boris Yeltsin. Out went Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev, to be replaced by Putin's closest confidant, Sergey Ivanov. Duma Deputy Boris Gryzlov, who in his first year in high politics has become best known for unquestioning devotion to the President, took over the Interior Ministry from Vladimir Rushailo. And the Defense Ministry acquired its first female deputy minister, financial specialist Lyubov Kudelina...
Eighteenth century chateaus are particularly desirable because of their large windows and roomy interior spaces. Laure Jakobiak, who works on chateau restorations with architect Bruno Lafourcade, says, "It is essentially Americans who are interested in restoring chateaus. They are very attracted by the history...
...read her own work aloud to herself, and that she especially didn’t like reading it aloud to other people. It was like a part of her body, and she was uncomfortable to show it in that way. Her work, she said, used an ‘interior voice...
...this is where everything fell apart. It was as though my appreciation of her work had been briefly resuscitated during the reading, only to be smothered immediately after. I don’t think that Shaughnessy’s poems inhabit an interior voice. Maybe that’s how she prefers to see it, but during this reading I came to the conclusion that there was an audible voice in her poetry which shows itself at its strongest moments. An interior voice conceives itself, but a spoken voice listens to itself, which is exactly what Shaughnessy?...