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...example, or New Jersey's WFMU, which Rolling Stone magazine labeled the best radio outlet in the U.S. Once on the BBC website, which links to five radio channels, I looked through the A-Z Index for a program I've longed to hear: Beatles-vintage D.J. John Peel, whose legendary Peel Sessions, featuring live rock, airs on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 10 p.m. U.K. time...
That's the kind of candygram that Bush is delivering to more than a dozen vulnerable Senators--men and women who will make the difference in the coming battle over Bush's tax cuts. A small handful of Republicans could defect and the President will need to peel off an equal number of Democrats to ensure passage of his program. Last week, after delivering his big budget address to Congress, he swept into Arkansas and Georgia, where Democrats Blanche Lincoln and Max Cleland felt the love. This week Bush will swing through Louisiana and North Dakota, two more states...
Talk to a resident living downwind of a North Carolina hog factory and you're likely to hear tales of odors that can peel paint. In the Tar Heel state, the swine industry famously generates mountains of waste - some 19 million tons a year - and critics have long charged that the industry pollutes the air and water illegally. This week the country's biggest hog processor and producer, Smithfield Foods, is expected to be the target of a blitz of lawsuits filed by environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and a posse of class-action lawyers who are mounting an assault...
...mother was singing," says Maurizio's sister LuLu. "And then she gets on the phone and calls the relatives in Italy." Speaking of Italy, the thought of going back home to Calabria and having Italian beach girls peel grapes for him held a certain appeal. "You could live very well there on that kind of money," says Maurizio, 40. Or he could have got his own place in Boston. Maurizio, a single guy, lives at his mother's house with his sister and two of his four brothers, old country style...
...opposition's leaders concede that as a former member of the club, Ashcroft would normally sail through the Senate. But since Ashcroft has been on the wrong side of every social issue from affirmative action to hate-crimes legislation and women's rights, there may be a chance to peel off enough moderate Republicans to make him the first Cabinet appointee to be bounced since 1989, when John Tower lost his chance to be Secretary of Defense for President Bush the Elder...