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...Still, no matter how much charm Obama piles on and how popular the President or his agenda is nationally, politicians aren't likely to back anything that hurts their constituents. The bill could well hinge on tiny provisions that members want to see removed or modified. Nelson is already opposing Obama's budget because of education provisions that would end federal support for private student loans and divert the money into grants. NelNet, a private student-loan company in Lincoln, Neb., employs 1,000 people and could go out of business if the budget is enacted as Obama envisions...
...Buddha Bar is part of a French franchise that made its mark with popular albums that mixed world-music elements with a lounge-y vibe. The international eateries serve up a pan-Asian menu and aesthetic that clearly uses the Buddha more as a cultural marker than as a religious icon. Restaurant souvenirs for sale include a Buddha snow globe - not the kind of thing a member of the faithful would be likely to purchase. Indeed, the Buddhist reverence toward compassion notwithstanding, a Middle Way might not be so easy to reach in the current climate in Jakarta...
Gennady Onishchenko, the head of the Federal Consumer Protection Service, on whose website the report is published, said that foods such as sausages and hotdogs, made popular during the shortages experienced in Soviet times, should now be eliminated. So too should typically Western foods such as potato chips, hamburgers, pizza and soft drinks. The best way forward, it seems to suggest, is a return to traditional Russian culinary heritage...
...biggest terrorist attack on European soil left 191 dead, thousands injured, and a realization that the country was far more vulnerable than all but a few (mostly ignored) experts had recognized. But its longest-lasting repercussions were political: just three days after the attacks, while the governing Popular Party still insisted - despite growing evidence to the contrary - that the Basque terrorist group ETA, and not Islamist terrorists, were to blame, the country held national elections. In a surprise upset, the Socialist party, headed by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, beat the conservative PP, which had been in power...
...accounts, the political hostility that has its roots in March 11, 2004 has diminished significantly in the last few months, and the second Zapatero administration has managed to achieve some collaboration with the Popular Party on pressing economic matters. "Time is a healer," says Savater. "Things have lost their ferocity...