Word: rabidity
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...calls by the ump are as much a part of baseball as home run records, rabid fans and watery beer, but a new study shows that an umpire's decision may have a disturbing ulterior motive: racism...
...explain this week in TIME, Hurricane Katrina was a manmade disaster, attributable almost entirely to the Corps. It should have been a teachable moment. But in Congress there's still rabid bipartisan support for the status quo - as long as all 535 members can bring home their pet water projects. President Bush has not usually distinguished himself as a tightwad, but when it comes to the Corps - an agency he doesn't control as much as he'd like - his budgets have been consistently stingy...
...course, he used to be one himself. He left the Democratic Party in October 2000 because he wanted to run for Mayor and the primary was too crowded. He was never a rabid Republican, but he used his cash to court Republicans who could help him and his city -including $2 million to the G.O.P. in New York, more than $5 million to the G.O.P. convention in New York, and smaller donations to congressional Republicans (most quite conservative) with jurisdiction over issues important to New York...
...because migrants would be forced to take even greater risks to evade the beefed-up border guard, the almost 500 of them who died in the desert last year (another record) might look like a small number in years to come. And U.S. employers - the same business lobby that rabid anti-immigration conservatives otherwise coddle - are sure to go almost any length, as they've always done, to skirt the new rules for verifying workers' legal status. Too much of our economy today depends on cheap fruit-picking, dishwashing and room-cleaning...
...qualities have won Kouchner plaudits from Washington - including former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke. Though Kouchner's liberal politics won't thrill the current Administration, the pragmatism and general Atlanticist view he shares with Sarkozy should help improve relations with the U.S. While neither man is the rabid pro-American often depicted, France's new political odd couple do share a similar diplomatic style likely to thaw the recent trans-Atlantic freeze...