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Carter dismissed this as a sham. "It won't put the brakes on them at all," he warns. King counters that the total ban would cost the state 15,000 jobs and over $1 billion. "Jonathan [Carter] asked the right question, but he gave the wrong answer," says King. "His program would be a disaster for Maine." Perhaps. But without Carter, the timber industry never would have negotiated in the first place. A clear majority of Maine voters now opposes the status quo. The days of the paper plantation may be waning...
Despite the miserable conditions for balloting, the U.S. asserts it is better to have a sham vote than no vote at all. "There are two ways to approach the elections," says Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, John Kornblum. "You can approach them idealistically, as an exercise in pure democracy. Or you can view them as a building block in a flawed but so far very successful peace process." Some observers are less optimistic. Says Richard Holbrooke, the architect of the Dayton accords: "Suppose a reasonably free and fair election chooses people who are pledged to separatism, when...
...hosted a party and afterward broke the news to gossip diva Liz Smith. Nobody is saying whether the rift was caused by the pressure of being married to a man so famous his name is synonymous with underpants, or whether the oft-repeated suggestion that the marriage was a sham is true. "They intend to make every effort to work out any issues between them, but in any event intend to remain the closest of friends, as they are today," said a spokesman. One possible translation: she won't have to pay retail...
Human rights groups have denounced Saro-Wiwa's trial as a sham that was meant to quiet Ogoni demands for compensation...
...Republican" at all--he's a "populist." And Rush evidently means this to be a criticism! Buchanan's populist demagoguery, deplorable as it is, has had the healthy effect of separating the Republicans from the populists, and of exposing the Republican Party's own populism as a sham. When institutions they and their traditional business allies control are at stake, it is suddenly "anti-American" to be "anti-institutional...