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...full-timers. But farm lobbyists say that simply highlights the continuing need for a safety net--and if the net happens to catch Scottie Pippen, Chevron, Ted Turner and 1,324 recipients in bucolic New York City, that's a small price to pay. "The system isn't perfect, but politics is the art of the possible, and the system works," says agribusiness lobbyist Charlie Stenholm, a cotton farmer and former Texas Congressman who was once the committee's top Democrat...
...Davis' side are the small but vocal, and growing, forces against circumcision, so-called intactivists: young parents who don't want to alter their perfect babies, men who feel their circumcisions left them psychically scarred and sexually disadvantaged ("I always felt something was missing, not functioning properly," says David Wilson, whose Stop Infant Circumcision Society marches on Washington annually) and even some medical professionals who consider the procedure genital mutilation...
...concerts featuring Harvard’s musically-inclined. It also has the potential to draw significant crowds, with its food and drink serving as an added incentive to attending live shows that is lacking at more obscure on-campus venues such as the Quincy Cage.FOOTING THE BILLBut while the perfect stage for live music may now exist at Harvard, financial issues may still inhibit the potential of WHRB’s involvement in promoting live bands.Gittleson makes it clear that the event is purely altruistic on the part of the station, which had to resort to selling more advertising time...
...destroyed, there will be no symbol for the party." At a time when its reins on China's economic, cultural and social values are loosening, the party needs as many symbols of emotional and ideological legitimacy as it can get. By eroding the icon that is Zhou, The Last Perfect Revolutionary makes plain just how scant these symbols have become...
...martial law raises the danger that the combination of the tribal insurgency and related militancy in the cities, as well as anti-Musharraf agitation by the middle class (such as the recent lawyers' protests that forced Musharraf to back down from firing chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry), will become a perfect storm of opposition that could further weaken the regime. "Martial law at this stage would be a disaster for Pakistan," says Senator Raza Rabbani. "The increase in terrorist activity in the country, the growing extremism, has a direct relationship with the lack of democracy...