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...blood between the fellow Democrats surfaced last January when Blagojevich ordered the closing of a waste dump operated by a distant cousin of his wife Patti. Her outraged father admitted helping the dump's owner but denied having any financial stake in it. And he shot back with pay-for-play allegations against his son-in-law's administration. Although Mell later retracted the charges, a grand jury investigation was launched, and Blagojevich aides have reportedly been subpoenaed. In more ways than one, Patti Blagojevich is caught in the middle. The Governor's office acknowledged last week that the first...
...stake is the essence of the Senate: Should the institution maintain the unique culture that the framers of the Constitution envisioned for it, a place where a minority can have its say and even have a shot at winning a battle here and there? "The whole idea of the Senate is that it's different from the House. The passions of the moment can cool here," says North Dakota Democrat Kent Conrad, one of the Senators who was trying to come up with a deal to avert the vote on the nuclear option. If Republicans can manage...
...political reform. Hamad bin Thamer told TIME that the board is studying a report by Ernst & Young on how to become more financially competitive, with a view toward privatizing al-Jazeera. No date has been set for an IPO, but the chairman suggests that when it happens, a majority stake could be reserved for Qatari citizens, with the remaining shares open to all international investors...
...than-even winning percentage. Knowing this, Levitt looked at the last matches in tournaments—when a wrestler with a 13-1 record going into the final round was matched with a 7-7 wrestler on the edge. He found that the 7-7 wrestlers, with more at stake, prevail far more frequently than one would expect—indeed, the winning percentage for 7-7 wrestlers is so improbably high that it suggests foul play...
...show, however--despite what some scientists claimed--is that sexual preference is biologically hardwired and thus present from birth. That idea is pretty much accepted by most gays and by many biologists as well. But it is refuted by those--generally on the religious right--who have a stake in believing that homosexuality is a personal choice rather than an inborn trait...