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Republicans will most likely try to introduce an amendment banning all labor union contributions to political campaigns, which raises the ire of Democrats, who benefited from millions of labor dollars...
...from the incident appears to be Yasser Arafat. As the hapless Mossad hit men returned home Monday, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin ? released as part of the same deal ? was welcomed in Gaza by tens of thousands of Palestinians. Arafat now has either to seek coexistence with Hamas ? and earn the ire of Israel and the U.S.? or to confront an adversary growing in power and influence. ?Arafat?s room for maneuver is greatly limited,? says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad. ?Sheikh Yassin will be asking Arafat, ?What?s the point of hugging and kissing me while keeping my supporters behind...
...days ago, Forbes magazine, the target of Turner's ire, released its annual list of the nation's 400 richest people. This year, the list included 170 billionaires, up from 135 in 1996. When the magazine started the list in 1982, there were just 13 billionaires...
...middle of a student's career provokes justified distrust and anger. If the Economics Department would have changed the criteria only for incoming sophomores and even juniors, who have four semesters left to change their class make-up, the decision would not be the subject of such ire. The decision to include seniors, however, is indefensible, unless the Economics Department is simply admitting that their honors are simply arbitrary since they have no time to react to changing requirements...
...voice but not outlook. When Deirdre Coleman, Imus' wife, asked to be excused from jury duty on a murder trial because Imus' show was covering it, Judge Harold J. Rothwax asked her to ask him not to cover it. The judge then relented, but not before earning Imus' ire. On his nationally syndicated show, the shock jock ranted against Rothwax, using such epithets as "Scuzwax," "Rothworm" and "senile old dirtbag." Thus it was Rothwax's turn to get mad. He has no show, so he's suing instead...