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Last weekend I was poised on the top of a mountain range, about to shoot down half a mile of icy slush on skis badly in need of sharpening, and a question occurred to me: does absence really make the heart grow fonder? My family took off a few days to do some much-needed bonding on the slopes of the Sunday River Ski Mountain in central Maine, and I made the painful decision to forsake life in Cambridge for a short while. As I skidded and slalomed down the trail on Saturday morning, I was surprised to watch...
...probe into Chirac's role in this case, like the alleged rpr slush funds, has run into a procedural brick wall. In January 1999, the Constitutional Council ruled that an acting President cannot be tried by a criminal court. "Chirac is the only candidate who needs to be elected to escape his legal destiny," said Socialist Deputy Arnaud Montebourg. "If he's not elected, he will immediately be served a summons by three investigating magistrates...
...imminent legal danger, but the whiff of sleaze hanging over him poses a threat to his political future. Things look set to get worse on March 6, when ex-magistrate Halphen publishes a book recounting the political pressure he faced while investigating the alleged rpr slush funds...
Organized by Service Employees International Union Local 254, which represents Harvard’s unionized janitors, the rally filled the Unitarian-Universalist First Church of Cambridge and was followed by a 25-minute march to the Holyoke Center, through rainy conditions and slush...
...Environment under former Chancellor Helmut Kohl and had the support of younger and female members of the CDU, she was never able to shake the image of being inexperienced in government. She took over as CDU chairwoman only two years ago, when the party became mired in a slush-fund scandal. (Last week Stoiber became entangled in a campaign-funding controversy about the way his party raised money by selling subscriptions to the CSU newspaper. A prosecutor in Munich quickly said the party had not broken...