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...Byun rises from his seat when the video feed begins and when his half sister and nephew suddenly appear on the screen. He introduces his side of the family, who take deep bows, then reaches to his left for the photo of his recently departed 88-year-old father. "Our father died only ten days ago," he says, holding up the frame in front a camera perched on top of the screen. "When he learned he was finally going to meet you, his heart and mind couldn't handle the excitement." Fighting back tears, his half sister dabs her eyes...
...Policy Studies who served in the Energy Department under President Bill Clinton, points out that none of the Presidential candidates have a solid resume on the issue of nuclear power. As a mayor, Giuliani had no jurisdiction over New York State's nuclear facilities, and Clinton has gained a seat on the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee only since the Democrats took control of Congress after last November's elections...
...analysis of Southern thinkers emphasizes that many intellectuals became arch-defenders of the Confederate system to gain the status that did not naturally flow to Southern men of letters. Hammond’s intellectual efforts gave the governorship of South Carolina and a Senate seat. Scholars are motivated by many things, many of which are admirable and some of which are not. Harvard is well served by the fact that Faust has spent more than 30 years on the motives of thinkers...
After weeks of insisting that she planned to run, Louisiana's Democratic governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco announced that she would not seek reelection this fall. For Democrats, who hoped to hang onto the seat in an increasingly Red State, Blanco's announcement blew the race wide open. If the news was disheartening for her supporters and her party, it was perhaps more dismaying to her political enemies, who were clearly relishing the prospect of an all-out rout as the G.O.P. planned a run against her Katrina record...
...whopping margin in a rematch with her 2003 runoff opponent, Republican Bobby Jindal, now a U.S. representative and one of only two Republicans who have announced plans to run for the state's top job. Jindal, who tacked hard to the right to win his suburban New Orleans district seat in 2004, has the backing of the state party. Now, another candidate, state Senator and wealthy businessman Walter Boasso, has been running television ads touting his anti-establishment credentials...