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...powerful father-in-law has had Kazakhstan's Prosecutor General's Office close down several print, broadcast and online outlets of the media-holding company controlled by Aliyev and Dariga. That vast empire will be now redistributed among the President's supporters. The police searched Dariga's house, in spite of her immunity as a member of parliament. "Getting rid of Aliyev is good news," says one analyst in Kazakhstan. "The way he is being got rid of is bad news, though. Scoundrels fighting villains in roguish ways doesn't promise any good...
...also a sign that McCain, like many people, did not fully understand how much the evangelical landscape had changed since Falwell first arrived back in the 1970s to reshape it. The current climate exists both because and in spite of him: no one did more to usher fundamentalist Christians into the political arena, but he could not control what happened once they got there...
...take off his shoes, in a dissonant but oddly endearing tribute to both the conservative costume of Harvard yore and the liberal spirit of the occasion. Harvard’s College Events Board (CEB) should be commended for a Yardfest that succeeded in spite of inclement weather. But amid the frivolity of a two-story slide, a tire swing, and the strains of “Semi-Charmed Life,” we could not help but reflect that the College community would perhaps be better served by more frequent, but smaller events rather than the occasional pan-campus blowout...
Jamestown left a record of spite, want and death, to say nothing of the long-range problems, from racism to lung cancer, of which the colonists were unaware. Yet they survived. Key aspects of the Jamestown template--chiefly the lures of religious liberty, private ownership and a measure of self-rule--guaranteed that British North America would be populous enough to withstand challenges from France and Holland and, finally, the power grabs of the mother country...
...White House certainly seems to think it is. The Administration has lately been chuckling to itself, pleased that in spite of all the resolute prognostication of pundits and experts and what most observers viewed as Gonzales' less than stellar performance on Capitol Hill last week, Bush has managed to keep his Attorney General in office. Even as more Republican Senators, most notably John McCain, join the call for Gonzales to resign, many - some stunned, some frustrated, some simply resigned - say they think the White House has weathered the storm. "There's only two people who can make the decision...