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...regulatory route, using administrative guidance and legal loopholes to achieve what Gingrich could not obtain in the full glare of the legislative process. "They are rejecting the full-frontal-assault approach that gets a lot of media attention in favor of death by a thousand strokes of the pen," contends Stoermer. The Republicans are also learning how to spin environmental issues in their direction. In a confidential document distributed to G.O.P. Governors and members of Congress just before last November's elections, Republican pollster Frank Luntz advised party members to refer to themselves as "conservationists." The document said, "The first...
...indeed, whoever makes the top 10), taking a 15% to 20% cut of the winner's income. He can then deploy one of the songwriters he manages--including Cathy Dennis, who with Rob Davis co-wrote the Kylie Minogue hit Can't Get You Out of My Head--to pen tunes for his singers. (Dennis helped write Clarkson's No. 1 single.) And there's revenue from merchandise, like T shirts, and from Idol concert tours...
...When you get to your seat in this beautiful courtroom, there is a handmade goose quill pen waiting for you at your seat. Then the clerk comes out and announces the Justices, who come in through a velvet curtain. The courtroom was packed; the pressroom was packed. Every seat was filled...
...considered, but the final decision rests with the school's administrators, the student's mental-health counselor, school-district officials and the probation officer. A 13-year-old boy who was expelled under zero-tolerance rules last June--he accidentally cut his best friend while playing with a pen knife at school--will return to his school district next fall because, Corella says, "he's a strong A student with no behavior problems, and his offense was minor." When a student has serious anger problems, however, "it's a big red flag," she says. "That kid's probably better...
...John Paul II's canonization of his religious idol, Padre Pio. While most took the religious confession with a grain of salt, some may have seen contrition in the video image of Giuffrè's slightly slouched posture, or anxiety in his constant twirling and clicking of a ballpoint pen. The question of whether to trust this man - nicknamed Manuzza (the Hand) for his stunted right hand due to childhood polio - presents key questions about the state of Italy's public affairs. If Giuffrè is to be believed, important officials of the country's largest political party - allegedly including...