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...Bowman and Australian Services Union organizer Donna Webster fumed about the cfmeu. "That was an absolute cop-out." But for the P.M., it was an effective political strike: after hinting in the first week of the campaign he would move on the contentious issue of logging in the island state's old-growth forests, the Prime Minister waited until Labor had been attacked by timber workers over its plans to protect vast new areas of forest - which ended up costing it two seats in Tasmania - before releasing his own plan. In the last few days, the campaign got personal...
Competing against a tough field including champion Binghamton and regional power Rhode Island, the Harvard men’s golf team placed last at the Macdonald Cup hosted by Yale. After a disappointing showing at last week’s Mulekicker Fall Classic, the Crimson fared even worse this weekend, posting only eight sub-80 rounds out of 15 total...
Democrats are still seething over the very public defection of Zell Miller, the Democratic Senator from Georgia who endorsed George W. Bush and trashed John Kerry at the G.O.P. Convention. Now Republicans have a defector of their own to worry about: Lincoln Chafee, Rhode Island's moderate G.O.P. Senator, who told home-state reporters two weeks ago that he probably won't vote for Bush in November. The Senator has opposed the President on such issues as tax cuts, the decision to go to war in Iraq and Bush's refusal to press for renewal of the assault-weapons...
...Senator says President Bush hasn't called him but that intermediaries have told him that Administration aides wish he would "just keep quiet." Senate Republicans could retaliate--for example, by denying funds for projects important to Chafee's constituents in Rhode Island. But as angry as they might be over Chafee's defection, G.O.P. Senators are well aware that their slim majority in the Senate could be jeopardized if he were to switch parties, as Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords did three years ago. Chafee says he has no plans "at this stage" to bolt the party. But Republicans know that...
From there, the options widen. If culture is your thing, pop across the street from Millennium Park to the Art Institute of Chicago, where you can see some of the world's most famous paintings, including Grant Wood's American Gothic and Georges Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. If it's shopping you crave, check out a classic downtown department store, Carson Pirie Scott or Marshall Field, where if nothing else, you can pick up a box of famous Frango mints...