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...attended more than 15 games. "They have brought the game to life," he says. "It's faster, rougher, more attractive." The NHL lockout announced on Sept. 15 has been devastating for the more than 730 players left jobless. In December, the National Hockey League Players' Association proposed a 24% rollback on all players' salaries; the league, which says it has lost some $500 million in the last two seasons, insists on capping players' salaries. The standoff seems likely to scupper the entire NHL season. But the NHL's loss is Europe's gain. Rather than sit out the dispute...
...been more than just the Iraq war that has abused the federal budget for the past four years; the enormous tax cuts for the wealthiest in this country have sent budget deficits to record highs. Kerry’s sensible tax cuts for the middle class and rollback of the tax cuts for the top 2 percent of income earners will help to relieve the growing financial pressures on working families and set the nation back on the course of financial solvency...
...retiring Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell. Coors, 58, faces state attorney general Ken Salazar, 49, who has done a savvy job of playing up his humble rancher's roots; as he drives around in a pickup truck, the pro-choice Catholic calls for prescription-drug imports from Canada and a rollback of the Patriot Act. While attacking pork-barrel spending, Coors has stressed his business acumen and conservative values (favorite book: the Bible). Lately he has gotten flak for his family's outsourcing of jobs--a little reminder that wealth and fame can be a double-edged sword...
...Instead, he envisaged managing the conflict between the two peoples via a series of long-term interim agreements, which the Palestinians are bludgeoned into accepting by the superiority of Israeli arms. And the upsurge of intifada violence quickly eclipsed talk of peace formulas, creating a context for Sharon's rollback of Oslo to the point that he has longsince pronounced it dead and buried...