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Last week's indictment of former Republican superlobbyist Jack Abramoff by a Fort Lauderdale grand jury could be making at least one member of Congress skittish: Ohio GOP Rep. Bob Ney, who twice put statements in the Congressional Record that favored Abramoff's side of a bitterly disputed deal involving gambling boats that is at the heart of the charges...
...Kurdish nationalist sentiment traditionally runs high. Even Turkey's reticent but powerful military General Staff weighed in, issuing a statement describing the incident as an act of "treason" by "so-called citizens." Civilians, too, felt scorned. "Burning the flag is a slap in our face," said Ahmet Güney, a shop clerk in Istanbul's busy Taksim district. "We must show that we will not tolerate this." Turks have always been patriotic, but the flag-waving may be more than a response to a relatively minor incident. "Left- and right-wing nationalists are uniting on what they call...
...charities set up by lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who is already under investigation on separate matters by another committee and the Justice Department. One issue is whether Abramoff improperly used nonprofits to pay for overseas trips to places other than South Korea for DeLay and House Administration Committee chairman Robert Ney...
Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council (FRC), a conservative lobbying group, and Hadley P. Arkes, Ney professor of American institutes at Amherst College, told a standing-room-only crowd in Austin Hall that allowing gay marriages would weaken social institutions...
...Ney] was quick,” Andersen said. “He was obviously their offensive threat all game. Our defense really played well as a unit today. We were able to shut down a solid team...