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...recent nation-wide survey by the Harvard School of Public Health found that most businesses believe they will suffer significant operational difficulties in the event of a widespread H1N1 outbreak...
...grant roving wiretaps on unnamed suspects, and to force broad disclosure of documents, which some call the library records power; and the never-used authority, provided for in Intelligence Reform and Terrorist Prevention Act of 2004, for surveillance of lone wolf terrorists unaffiliated with any group or foreign nation. But on Wednesday, some liberals and open government advocates cheered Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to rewrite how and when the Administration invokes the state secret privilege. (Read why librarians hate the Patriot...
...University to protest cuts to the budget, "it's really a political crisis around the two-thirds rule in the legislature that holds the state hostage to a minority of legislators who are not doing what the people of California want." California is the only state in the nation that has a two-thirds requirement for the passage of tax increases and to pass a budget. These two rules are at the root of the state's chronic budget woes...
...aide at a Greek restaurant in Portland. And the amicability has been mutual. While others in the GOP have gone so far as to brand Obama a socialist for his effort to expand the government's role in an industry that accounts for one-sixth of the nation's economy, Snowe told the New York Times that Obama is "very realistic in his views on health care ... more moderate than liberal on this question...
...Thursday, Sarkozy noted there's been no change in Tehran's behavior despite dialogue with Iran and sanctions imposed since 2005. "Since then, there's only uranium enrichment, more centrifuges and - last but not least - a call by the leader of Iran to wipe a U.N. member nation [Israel] off the map," he said. "What are we going to do about it?" (See pictures of the French crackdown on immigrants...