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...John Breaux, head Democratic defector and co-sponsor with Tennessee Republican Bill Frist of the non-severability amendment, argued that McCain-Feingold's three main components - the soft-money ban, the raising of hard-money limits, and Snowe-Jeffords - all went together. Fellow defector Robert Torricelli concurred: Without any one of the three, the system goes out of whack...
...They're always practicing," said Karen Bruderle, a spokesperson for IBM, a sponsor of the contest. "These students are doing problems year round...
...moment: for five years, Democrats have been mouthing off in support of McCain's reform bill while knowing that procedural roadblocks thrown up by Republicans would keep it from coming to a vote. "But this time we're playing with real bullets," says G.O.P. Senator Chuck Hagel, who is sponsoring a rival bill. Senate majority leader Trent Lott has agreed to let McCain and his Democratic co-sponsor, Russell Feingold of Wisconsin, have their vote within two weeks. The House is poised to pass a similar measure, which means Congress could finally pass a bill that cuts off hundreds...
...White, in other words, may very well hold her onetime sponsor's fate in her hands. And no one who knows her doubts she will tackle this case with the same energy she gives to every one that crosses her Manhattan desk...
...Games and the world recognition that goes with them, much of which will accrue to the Communist Party. The letter's timing wrong-footed Beijing in other ways too. The U.N. High Commission on Human Rights meets in Geneva next week and the U.S. recently announced its intention to sponsor a resolution to censure China for its human rights record. The government is clearly worried by the women's actions: police detained Hu for eight hours in mid-January. Shan suffered much worse. She was sentenced without trial to two years re-education through labor for "disturbing social order...