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...that the Jews survived the first Christian millennium? The church, from the moment of its embrace by the Roman Emperor Constantine in the 4th century, enjoyed immense power and employed it with ruthless efficiency to eliminate dozens of heresies and pagan creeds. Its relationship with Judaism, its spiritual predecessor and the first challenger to its claims for Christ, was especially poisonous. Why, then, were the Jews permitted to live--and be persecuted--another...
...reversal would require complex and time-consuming machinations and would undoubtedly run into violent and public opposition from environmental organizations. Press reps for President-elect Bush, who expressed opposition to a similar proposal during this year's campaign, would only say that he will carefully evaluate each of his predecessor's presidential orders. Spokesman Ari Fleischer took this veiled swipe at Clinton on Friday: "We will not comment on some of these last-minute executive orders that he is pursuing...
...been his original intention. Right now, the followers of both Chairman Arafat and Prime Minister Barak are simply not yet ready to conclude a workable peace, which leaves the Bush administration facing the headache of fashioning a new policy towards the conflict. President-elect Bush said Tuesday that his predecessor was "giving it his best shot?and I certainly hope it works." Indeed, the thankless task of Mideast peacemaking may be one bit of the presidency Bush would happily have left to the Democrats...
...increasingly unhappy within NIH, with its bureaucracy, limited funds and intramural sniping (Watson, Collins' predecessor as head of the agency's genome project, had derided Venter for his work on machines that "could be run by monkeys"). So he and Claire Fraser, his wife and collaborator, left to found a private research firm, called the Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), where in 1994 he upped the gene-sequencing ante to a new level. At the urging of medicine Nobelist Hamilton Smith, now a Celera scientist, Venter decided to use a technique called shotgunning to sequence the entire genome...
...been bled white by its newly created high and mighty. If Moscow wants justice done in Gusinsky's case, for example, why is he being accused now of what he allegedly did back in 1996? Because back in 1996 he was moving with the tide and supporting Putin's predecessor and benefactor, Boris Yeltsin. If Moscow wants justice done to Berezovsky for his alleged misdemeanors of the 1990s, why was he given an influential official position with the powerful Security Council back then, rather than hauled into court? Could it be that, just as in the 1930s, those accused will...