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...them violent - broke out across the country. Commentators around Europe attributed the eruption to the passion of outraged [an error occurred while processing this directive] citizens of a former dictatorship who expected more from their elected leaders. But according to Gyurcsány's supporters, there's a more partisan root to the clashes as the country heads toward nationwide municipal elections on Oct. 1. In the aftermath of the demonstrations, police determined that a small coterie of right-wing football hooligans was responsible for the attacks and vandalism that caused close to €1 million in damage. Budapest Mayor...
Officers of the two groups agreed that their fundraising efforts through Amazon.com made a lot of sense—and dollars. With classes in full gear, students are buying books online anyway and should have the opportunity to contribute to their chosen political cause at the same time, the partisan foes both said...
...Unlike the recent TV movie The Path to 9/11, which turned The 9/11 Report into a narrative that received sharp criticism, the comix adaptation adheres to the non-partisan tone of the original book - for better or worse. For the better it avoids messy editorializing. For the worse it loses the engagement of telling a single story. It begins with what journalists call a "tick-tock," a minute-by-minute accounting of the hijacking of the planes. Cleverly, Jacobson and Colon use the graphic abilities of the form to show each plane's story in four parallel timelines running across...
...Republican Rick Santorum, who favors a tough line against illegal immigration. Santorum campaign staffers helped Barletta, also a Republican, and his supporters found a website boosting his initiative, called Small Town Defenders. Although immigration ranks low among major issues for Pennsylvania voters, said Terry Madonna, head of the non-partisan Keystone Poll, it is clear that Santorum's position on immigration has helped him close the gap in a tough race against Democrat Robert Casey Jr. The issue plays well with a small core of Republican activists, Madonna said, and it also allows Santorum to draw a legitimate difference with...
...Hillary has worked to take the partisan edge off her image, she has also underscored the biggest question voters have about her: What does she really believe in? A First Lady can pick and choose her issues, but as a Senator, Hillary has been forced to take stands in areas that go far beyond the health-care and family issues that Americans have long associated with her. Her voting pattern has tilted liberal, but in National Journal's ratings of the five Democratic Senators most often mentioned as presidential contenders, Hillary's record (more liberal than 80.5% of her Senate...