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...National Weather Service estimated that the snowstorm may rank in the top ten recorded in southern New England history, the Boston Globe reported...
...seems to want not only to strengthen the Party's control over the state but to improve its thinking. Two weeks ago, he launched a nationwide campaign called "Develop and Maintain the Advanced Nature of Party Members." All 68 million rank-and-file Party members will spend the next 18 months "finding problems in their thought, work and behavior" and writing self-criticisms, according to the People's Daily. TV news, meanwhile, offers nightly profiles of model cadres like Zhou Guozhi, a peasant in rural Hubei province who lived in a wooden shack, hauled rocks on his back to build...
...turning every American into an investor, and a government safety net into a system that rewards judicious risk and individual initiative, Republicans believe they can change how Americans see every question from free trade to capital gains--tax cuts. "If we succeed in reforming Social Security, it will rank as one of the most significant conservative governing achievements ever," Bush's strategic-initiatives director Peter Wehner wrote in a private memo to Republican allies two weeks ago. "The scope and scale of this endeavor are hard to overestimate...
...which explains why rank-and-file Republicans on Capitol Hill--who haven't forgotten how they used to get clobbered for entertaining even modest Social Security changes--aren't exactly storming the microphones to pledge their unconditional support for anything that would change the basic outlines of this arrangement. Anxiety is especially high in the House, where all 435 lawmakers have to run for re-election next year. "I've told my staff we are going to keep all options open. I'm not saying yes or no at this point," says Republican Congressman Mike Castle of Delaware, who leads...
...Palestinian electorate, they simply see him as an "acceptable" if uninspiring choice, one who represents the only chance at this stage of restoring a peace process, and one whom, once elected, will owe a substantial political debt to the Martyr's Brigade and the broader militant Fatah rank and file of which they form part. That's because it was the militants who cajoled the imprisoned popular Fatah militant Marwan Barghouti into withdrawing from the race and throwing his support behind Abbas. Barghouti may well have beaten Abbas in a head-to-head race, particularly since his candidacy would likely...