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...environmental activist group Friends of the Earth announced last week that it will stay away from Genoa. "We're not going because we've received no guarantees it will be peaceful," says Duncan McLaren, a spokesman. Others may yet pull out. Says Fleur Anderson, head of campaigns for the Roman Catholic relief charity CAFOD: "We'll be monitoring the situation the whole time we're in Genoa...
...delivering a recommendation to his boss, who is poised to make a decision soon. Insiders say Rove personally leans in favor of research that uses fetal cell tissue. Politically, however, he's in favor of his boss's re-election. Polls indicate that a substantial majority of American Roman Catholics support embryonic research, but Rove fears church leaders would so fervently oppose a decision to back it that they would draw more Catholics to their side. And since conservative Catholics tend to be among those most open to the Bush and G.O.P. agenda, to alienate them on the issue would...
...These are the guys that sit around once every few months with Alan Greenspan - yes, there are others, despite the aura Greenspan sometimes acquires of a Roman emperor with a briefcase - and fiddle with the money supply in an attempt to keep the business cycle from bucking too much. (They also do some other stuff, which nobody cares about.) Greenspan chairs the seven-member Federal Reserve board, and they are joined for meetings by five regional Fed Bank presidents. This 12-person group is the Federal Open Market Committee. Each board member has a 14-year term...
...produce more embryos than they need and destroy the surplus? To pursue the gruesome Holocaust analogy, it's like outlawing the lampshades while ignoring the gas chambers. And yet President Bush is not searching for compromise on the issue of fertility clinics because there is no such issue. The Roman Catholic Church and others are publicly opposed to high-tech fertilization techniques, but they are not beating the drum about...
...gave France the grape, whose sophisticated cultivation the French now claim as one of their crowning contributions to civilization. Recently, anti-globalization maestro José Bové has adopted Astérix's moustache along with his approach to foreign policy - with U.S. multinationals taking the place of the Roman army. That comic-book reading of 21st century economics prevailed last month in southern France, when Robert Mondavi Corp. abandoned plans to produce wine in the village of Aniane in the face of bitter local opposition. By driving out the invader, though, the villagers seem to have harmed...