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...Corker, accused Ford of being pro-amnesty for illegal immigrants. Ford's response was immediate and lethal: an ad claiming that Corker's construction company had employed illegal aliens. In fact, a Corker work site had been raided by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. "Rapid response is a rule I set down for all our candidates this year," says Senator Charles Schumer of New York, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC). "If you want [financial] support from us, you have to respond within 24 hours after you've been attacked...
...Today the Yankees assured Alex Rodriguez that he would not be traded. They did say, however, they could not rule out the possibility that he might be adopted by Madonna and then she would move away." DAVID LETTERMAN...
...over whether Fox's action would restore calm or simply fuel the social polarization exacerbated by last summer's hotly contested presidential election. "We've been held hostage here by radical groups," Freddy Alcantar, a Oaxaca hotelier told TIME by phone Saturday morning. "Finally the President is imposing the rule of law." But a protester who called himself only Florentino, representing the leftist Popular Assemby of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO), told TIME that until Governor Ulises Ruiz resigns, he and other militants - who are believed by many to have the backing of a small-scale Oaxaca guerrilla force from...
...against the challenge of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) - gave no indication Saturday whether he would stay put in office now that Fox has exerted control in the state. Ruiz's troubles began when Oaxaca's poorly paid teachers went on strike last June, accusing Ruiz of authoritarian rule and neglect of the poor and indigenous citizens. Their walkout became more strident and violent as more radical forces - including the APPO - joined in to call attention to Mexico's sharp and growing social divide between haves and have-nots. (Mexico has a dozen billionaires, but about half...
...There's no question that corruption is the single greatest problem facing the country, and possibly also the greatest threat to the legitimacy of the Communist Party's unchallenged rule. It is certainly in the interests of the Party leader to at least appear to be tackling it within his own ranks. And he doesn't seem inclined to get that job done through political liberalization, empowering the courts or unleashing the media. Instead, Hu appears to favor a mixture of moral suasion (he's launched internal reeducation campaigns for party cadres), and the punishment of a few to scare...