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...fact that Hastert's inability to control the Foley fiasco -both before the Florida Congressman was outed as an antic pursuer of adolescent House pages and after the scandal broke -could well cost the Republicans control of the Congress. Why was the President so eager to dump Lott and protect Hastert? Because George W. Bush prizes loyalty over competence or accountability...
...oral rehydration and pit latrines don't make the world's headlines. Yet recurrent bouts of diarrhea not only disrupt a child's schooling, but also retard physical development as vital nutrients are continually flushed out of the body. One ray of hope: preliminary studies suggest that zinc supplements protect the intestine's lining and significantly reduce the duration of diarrhea episodes as well as the risk of recurrence. At ICDDR's field research center southeast of Dhaka, children who were given a 10-day course of zinc tablets after developing diarrhea had 30% fewer relapses, and 20% fewer developed...
...after all, the auteur of the wonderfully savage Wag the Dog, which much more successfully combined the thriller style with outrageously funny political satire. It?s OK for him to be angry with the machinations of corporate America, to suspect that it will stop at nothing to protect its interests. But there is something routine about his paranoia here, something that belongs in a different film. He has a great topic in Man of the Year - a smart and unlikely Everyman , an outsider used to speaking truth to power, who now has power to speak populist truth (and disgust...
...That, to say the least, is flawed thinking. Shutting down the page program now would be tantamount to admitting the House leadership can't protect a few dozen teenagers in its keep from the most egregious types of harm. If that's the case, then why should November voters trust them on, well, just about any other conceivable matter...
...Those working to protect children in Cambodia agree that the police force has recently shown a far stronger commitment to targeting pedophiles. But it's not just law and order that is doing the trick. A new political will to root them out is the result of diplomatic incentives and pressures, both the carrots of international donors and the stick of the U.S. State Department, say child protection workers...