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...deny same sex marriage licenses,” Murphy said. “Lawyers can obviously disagree, but we think there’s a strong case to be made that we can go ahead and do this now, and it makes sense given what’s at stake for so many individuals in Cambridge...
...administration is currently mulling whether to comply with the WTO’s ruling. At stake in its decision are the living standards of consumers and workers both in America and abroad, the sanctity of international law and America’s standing as the leader of trade liberalization. On the other side are the narrow political considerations to which Bush gave in when he imposed the tariffs last year. Let’s hope Bush’s better angels...
...Iraqi regime in the 1980s. Industry sources say Auchi provided Orascom with a $20 million loan to help pay down its $500 million debt. The sources say the loan gave Auchi, who faced French prosecutors earlier this year for his role in a corruption and embezzlement scandal, a controlling stake in Orascom. A senior U.S. official says Orascom's ties to Auchi are being investigated. As a result, no mobile licenses have yet been issued...
...eager to let the world know that—when he wasn’t implicating himself in gun shoot-outs or dating Jennifer Lopez—he was at an altar with a rather corpulent black man on the cross. But regardless of Combs’ personal stake in his exploitation of Biggie’s death, it was an exploitation that produced positive consequences. The East Coast-West Coast rap rivalry and its participants suddenly came into the national spotlight, out of the manipulative hands of hip-hop rags that had helped fan the flames of enmity. Subsequently...
...many ways, that means you. You, the nation’s young people, are our party’s greatest hope—in 2004 and beyond. Now is the time to give up your skepticism and take back your country. You already know what’s at stake; what you need to know is how much power you have to do something about...