Word: republican
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Minority Leader of the state House of Representatives Francis L. Marini and Evan Slavitt, the general counsel of the Massachusetts Republican Party, argued in favor of the death penalty...
Minority Leader of the state House of Representatives Francis L. Marini and Evan Slavitt, the general counsel of the Massachusetts Republican Party, argued in favor of the death penalty...
When the courtiers came calling on Prince George down in Austin this winter, the Texas Governor liked to talk about how much he needed to learn to become a strong candidate for the White House. Bush would tell visitors about his crash course in foreign policy with the Republican Party's best and brightest. And he would cite the Balkans as an example: "For instance," he'd say, "a year ago, I didn't know where Kosovo was. But I bet you didn't either...
...speed. Experts had never seen anything spread so fast. People trusted Melissa; she arrived disguised as an e-mail from a friend or colleague. In a matter of days, she was replicating herself all over cyberspace--from Berlin to Beijing, from the U.S. Marine Corps to the office of Republican Congressman Jim Talent--causing shutdowns in more than 300 computer networks. Worse still, her freely available source code soon spawned copycat viruses, like Papa and Mad Cow. Suddenly, Melissa wasn't sexy, crazy or even cool anymore. She was a menace to wired society...
...recall campaign by critics who claim he is awarding the city's most valuable business contracts to whites, remaking Detroit's schools is a potential land mine. In a city that is 76% black and where a majority of voters are Democrats, even a reluctant alliance with a white Republican Governor and majority-white legislature has made Archer's motives suspect. Some critics consider the takeover a violation of the rights of voters, who elected the school-board members Archer is stripping of their power and their pagers...