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Democrats found themselves in the odd position of listening to a Republican--former Princeton football star and Heisman trophy winner Dick Kazmaier--extol former president Ronald Reagan before endorsing Bradley for the 2000 race...
Democrats found themselves in the odd position of listening to a Republican--former Princeton football star and Heisman trophy winner Dick Kazmaier--extol former president Ronald Reagan before endorsing Bradley for the 2000 race...
Giving up its symbols is just about the hardest thing for a nationalist movement to do, and the quintessential symbol of Irish republicanism is the assault rifle. That is at the heart of the tricky situation facing British and Irish leaders, who, with a Wednesday deadline looming, on Tuesday entered a second day of make-or-break crisis talks on Northern Ireland?s future. "We?ve got to know that the gun will be taken out of Northern Irish politics," said Britain?s Prime Minister Tony Blair. "People will neither understand nor forgive if we don?t make this thing...
...loyalists who want the province to remain part of Britain and nationalists who believe they?re fighting an anti-colonial war. If the institutions agreed on last year were designed to shift the conflict from a paramilitary to a political track and foster a basis for coexistence between the republican Catholic and loyalist Protestant communities, then the breakdown over weapons signals the scale of that challenge. All that, of course, is in the long term. Loyalist groups have announced they will defy Monday night?s ban by the British authorities of next Sunday?s annual loyalist march through the Catholic...
...world of individual contractors overseen by state boxing regulators with very uneven records. "Boxing is a segmented, cottage industry," says Saporito, and that leaves it wide open to abuses. The latest legislation, which is named after boxing great Muhammad Ali, has a very powerful Senate backer, Arizona Republican John McCain. But it faces tough going. Last year, though it passed the Senate, the measure failed because time ran out in the House...