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Several Holocaust survivors present said it was not their place to pick apart the Pope's remarks, but there was not the resounding gratitude that John Paul II received upon his visit in 2000. "It was OK. I'm satisfied," said Ed Mosberg, a Krakow native and New Jersey resident whose parents and two sisters were killed by the Nazis. "It's important that he came...
...interview for Politico, gay-rights advocate Dixon Osburn stated, “I don’t think [Obama] would shy away from [selecting a gay or lesbian nominee], but first and foremost he’s going to pick someone he thinks has constitutional gravitas...
...question about whether he downloaded pornography; Tenenbaum, in a fit of philosophical whimsy, informing the plaintiffs that he was sure of something only “to the extent that anyone can know anything about what they did while they were conscious”; Burton, requesting that Joel pick files he did not download from a 40-page printout of his share folder and receiving a listing of several off-color adult-film selections in response. Lawyerly disdain, often smothered by the formalism and conventions of the profession, went barely veiled...
...from being better for the planet than gasoline, many scientists now argue that ethanol actually has a sizable carbon footprint, because when farmers in the U.S. use their land to grow corn for fuel rather than food, farmers in the developing world end up cutting down more forests to pick up the slack...
...Chrysler's top van is "a bona-fide contender for the Best-in-Class sash." Which sounds good - but would the sash count under "receivables" in bankruptcy court? The 4-liter T & C is virtually identical to the Odyssey in fuel efficiency and emissions, which means I could pick up $3,500 for buying one. (See the most important cars of all time...