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Keeping in mind that the Chicago Bulls or Washington Wizards would gladly select with him with one of the top picks in this year's draft, and the fact that he would be turning down millions of dollars over the next two years, Jason Williams offers a stark contrast to many of today's young basketball stars...
...President Bush is no environmentalist, and he's putting the stark choices on the table: If the U.S. wants to maintain its current lifestyle and consumption habits, saving the planet may have to wait. Cleaning up the environment will come at a cost to corporate profits and to consumers, and despite what he said on the campaign trail - indeed, despite what administration officials such as EPA chief Christie Whitman were saying as recently as 10 days ago - President Bush has now made clear that he believes the gain isn't worth the cost. Back to you, America...
...libraries. 80 of these pictures were exhibited recently in the Kunsthalle in Basel, Switzerlandthe selection here only begins to give us a sense for Hšfers perception of space. As in the other photographs in the exhibit, of museums and offices, Hofer portrays the communal space in a stark manner that nonetheless has the ability to humanize...
...that stark dilemma for most restaveks--slavery or privation--that allows their masters to rationalize the practice as more benevolent than benighted. "She's like a member of our family," insists Micheline Dornevil, 43, whom Ania serves as well as Dornevil's five children. "No, none of this restavek stuff. What we've done is help her." Romer often gets the same response from restavek "hosts" in Miami. "They actually think they're doing a positive thing for these children," she says. "And if they bring them to the U.S., ooh, then they really think they're doing a good...
...numbers and common sense go, the Democrats' response was solid. But in terms of political dexterity or public relations acumen, it was a bust. Daschle and Gephardt's dour response to Bush's ebullient address to Congress should serve as a stark reminder to Democrats still trying to decipher Gore's loss to Bush: Most Americans don't need or want to be reminded that life is hard, money is tight and things could be better. The gloom and doom implicit the Democrats' message may, in fact, be more realistic than the goofily optimistic tone Bush likes...