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...toxic brownfields and proposed making a "major investment in conservation by fully funding the Land and Water Conservation Fund" (a fund under the auspices of the United States Department of Agriculture). Bush also pledged $4.9 billion in resources over five years for the upkeep of national parks, a remark ostensibly designed to sooth critics who feared that Bush would attempt to unravel Clinton's last-minute executive orders involving these "national treasures...
Take, for example, his 1993 remark that "homosexuals undermine civilization" and that homosexual behavior was "shameful." The aggressive: he said this while testifying in favor of a Colorado constitutional amendment which would have banned laws that specified homosexuality as a distinct category for legal protection. The passive: he said that laws protecting specifically gays would patronize them (an argument Machiavelli sort of makes in his Discourses on Livy). And though the BGLSA (it didn't have a "T" that year) might have hated him, several of its members liked and respected Mansfield personally...
...report listed suicide as the cause of death. In addition, say Kerstin Cameron's supporters, the judge at a pre-trial hearing last December told the defense that he had read the case file four times and saw nothing to support a murder charge. The prosecution acknowledges that the remark was made, say German embassy officials in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's main city. Nevertheless, prosecutors insisted on forging ahead. Cameron is due to face trial later this year...
...your snide remark on the "the insecure exhibitionism of drunken Elis," I would have very much liked more drunken fun at Harvard this past November, but both of the parties on campus were so crowded, I could barely move...
...question of genocide should be left to historians," said the Turkish President Ahmet Nejdet Sezer in an attempt late last year to diffuse nationalist passions - a remark that earned him criticism at home for being too soft. To people like Berktay, the issue of whether it was genocide is a legal not a historical question: "Our job is to explain what happened and why it happened...