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...Island National Seashore in Texas, the National Marine Fisheries Service would ease salmon protections in the Pacific Northwest, and Washington would soften rules on logging and energy conservation. Opponents predict a new wave of even bolder measures in the coming months that could affect water and air quality and renew efforts to open Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil drilling. In response to the critics, White House spokesman Scott McClellan says, "There are a number of alarmist groups out there that are trying to promote fear in order to boost their own fund raising...
...will be provoked to follow. The bigger headache for the U.S. has turned out to be its longtime ally the South Koreans, who have no interest in making life worse for their North Korean kin. The South's President-elect, Roh Moo Hyun, has irritated Washington by vowing to renew Seoul's policy of "sunshine" engagement with the North. Last week Roh publicly criticized the U.S. containment strategy. "I am skeptical it will make North Korea surrender," he said...
...playbook of reliable sitcom conventions, renewing marital vows is usually reserved for the sixth or seventh season (see Everybody Loves Raymond et al.). OZZY and SHARON OSBOURNE decided to renew their vows last week in what is only the family's second season on MTV. At the Beverly Hills Hotel on New Year's Eve, before friends, family, Justin Timberlake, the Village People--and everyone watching MTV--Sharon and Ozzy, who have been married for 20 years, rededicated themselves to each other. It can't be long before Ozzy packs up the whole family for a two-part European adventure...
During the offseason, New Hampshire did not renew the contract of longtime coach Karen Kay. Once one of the nation’s most dominant hockey programs, New Hampshire had fallen well short of making the national tournament in each of the past three seasons under Kay and lost nine straight to Harvard. Prior to 1999, UNH had never lost to Harvard...
...statement published in the Harvard Gazette on Nov. 21, the English department announced that it would renew its invitation to Tom Paulin to give a poetry reading at Harvard. In defending this decision, Harvard College Professor and Cabot Professor of English Lawrence Buell wrote, “the English department affirms its belief in the importance of free speech as a principle and practice in the academy,” adding, “while we in no sense endorse the extreme statements by Mr. Paulin that have occasioned concern in the Harvard community, we support a university environment that...