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...critics, who answer that the mandate doesn't mean Chavez has carte blanche to do whatever he wants. The National Assembly is about to kneel to the president's demands that it relinquish its own power as a check on the executive. Even though it was already wholly controlled by Chavez allies, next week the assembly plans to pass an "Enabling Law" that will give Chavez broad powers to pass the laws he wants by decree. "We think a democracy needs autonomous powers, and you're giving the president all the control," opposition leader Julio Montoya, a former lawmaker, told...
...Kevin Kelleher, leading to a drive that put the Tigers in field-goal position already ahead 31-28. The kick was blocked, but an O’Hagan pass on the next drive was tipped at the line of scrimmage, leading to another Kelleher interception and allowing Princeton to kneel out the clock.FAKING ITPrinceton got a touchdown late in the first quarter after Harvard fumbled an attempted fake punt back to its own 12-yard line. The play, an attempted snap to sophomore defensive tackle and upback Matt Curtis, was one the Crimson had successfully used before in defeating Lehigh...
...wouldn't kneel before a God devoted to filling your bank account? Our report on ministries that preach prosperity drew amens from their adherents. But most readers proclaimed that those who evangelize for earthly treasure have sold out Christ's true message and discounted its rewards...
...make India kneel." --MANMOHAN SINGH, Indian Prime Minister, after train bombings in Bombay killed about 200 people. No group has claimed responsibility...
Prime Minister Ismail Haniya lashed out at Israel and the West last Tuesday for trying "to force our people to kneel down." But his administration is searching for ways out of the crisis, which might mean making conciliatory gestures toward Israel. According to Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza, Hamas as an organization will not recognize Israel and would seek only an "interim solution" to the current impasse, but spokesmen for the government, as well as some Palestinian officials, have suggested that almost all options could be on the table--including, perhaps, recognition in some roundabout form...