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...corruption - a perennial scourge of Africa - are also fueling discontent. According to Berlin-based good governance watchdog Transparency International, graft is seen to be a "serious" problem in Senegal. In his victory speech, Wade vowed to target rising levels of corruption - especially that of his adversaries - raising the specter of further political conflict. He also pledged that the majority of Senegalese would have jobs within two years, but failed to outline how he'd achieve that tall task. Back in Dakar, taxi driver Saliou Diouf, 27, pondered an uncertain future: "Next time will be different - until then many things...
...Rove will find himself receiving further scrutiny from the Hill in coming weeks. On Tuesday, Senators Patrick Leahy and Arlen Specter, the top Democrat and Republican on the Senate judiciary committee, sent him a letter asking him to make himself available for interviews and testimony before the committee. Yesterday the committee notched up the pressure on him, making clear it intended to authorize subpoena power against him next week...
...Picasso was so incensed by what he read in the newspapers that he painted this massive canvas.”However, the impact is not confined to art, Epps says. Spain still has to grapple with the war’s aftermath, he says.“This specter of the Spanish Civil War is a great type of trauma for Spain. It endures through very interesting ways,” Epps notes, providing an example in current policies. “The Spanish government just last year passed a law that includes such things as exhuming mass graves. This...
...rely largely on the White House for support as Congressional investigations proceed. For the time being, President Bush is sticking by his old friend from Texas. But that could change if G.O.P. support for Gonzales slips further among Republicans in the event of new revelations surrounding the firings. Arlen Specter, the top G.O.P. figure on the Senate Judiciary Committee, has already suggested that Gonzales may be on his way out, and doubts about the Attorney General's performance are now being expressed publicly by stalwart Administration backers such as Sen. John Cornyn of Texas and Rep. James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin...
...Gonzales had tried to dismiss the controversy as an "overblown personnel matter," but his attitude appeared to irritate the Judiciary Committee's leading Republican, Sen. Arlen Specter. "One day there will be a new attorney general," Specter said at this week's public hearing in the Senate, "maybe sooner rather than later...