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...much of the day sparring in sharp language over the bill, which will reduce U.S. carbon emissions 17% below 2005 levels by 2020 and 83% below by 2050. In the end, the vote of 219 to 212 included more than 40 Democrats who broke ranks with their party's leadership to vote against the bill. Republicans savaged the bill as an economy-killing energy tax - one member even called for a moment of silence for the Americans who would lose their jobs because of the bill - and some left-wing environmental groups, including Greenpeace, withdrew their support because they believed...
Ensign, Senator John • letter complaining about cuckolding by - "Please help me! This should not be how the leadership of our country should be allowed to behave" - was e-mailed to Fox News anchorwoman by husband of mistress of the day before the public confession...
...East Asia's bid for economic leadership in the low-carbon age may push the Americans - and certainly the Europeans - to intensify their engagement with green technologies. The space race spawned a lot of the advances in technology that we take for granted today. The green race may do the same thing for low-carbon products and processes - and in this competition, the world stands to be the real winner...
...breach is between the generation that made the revolution of 1979 - leaders like Mir-Hossein Mousavi, the former Presidents Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mohammed Khatami, among others - and the generation that fought the Iran-Iraq war, led by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his cohort among the battle-hardened leadership of the Revolutionary Guards Corps. The war led to a significant militarization of Iranian society, and the Supreme Leader, a member of the 1970s generation, has drifted away from his contemporaries toward the military. Among the rumors and major questions emerging from the election was whether the rigging was a quiet...
Lieberman said he is also willing to talk openly with the Palestinians. So far, he said, the Palestinian leadership has failed to contact the Israelis after Netanyahu reversed his earlier opposition to a Palestinian state and said in a major foreign policy speech earlier this month that he now advocates a two-state solution. Lieberman said that previous peace efforts floundered because "it's impossible to impose peace, only to create it." And for that, he said, "We must start with practical issues, like getting rid of roadblocks and illegal outposts [inside the Palestinian territories]. You must understand that...