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...current U.S. administration, nor are they likely to be. But pursuing a harder line effectively isolates the U.S. from its European and Arab allies. Those allies, of course, are well aware that the current U.S. administration has less than 18 months left in office, and they hope for a successor more open to compromise. But they may also be increasingly fearful of what the outgoing Administration may do on Iran before leaving office. That bad-cop fear, of course, is what Secretary of State Condi Rice is trading on when she warns European governments that their failure to back stronger...
...earmark explosion - a 1,200% increase since the 1991 bill - was a symptom of this mindless goodie-bagging. And Young, who is now the subject of a federal corruption investigation, was by no means the only offender. Democratic Congressman James Oberstar of Minnesota - his successor as chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee - bragged about bagging 57 "high-priority projects" for his district in the bill, including a visitor center at Mesabi Station, a bridge for snowmobiles in Onamia and a new $3 million highway between County Road 565 in Hoyt Lakes and the intersection of Highways...
...scourge is back, and Blair's successor Gordon Brown is determined not to let it hurt his standing. On 3 August Debby Reynolds, U.K. Chief Veterinary Officer, confirmed that cattle in Surrey had tested positive. Sixty-four cattle at the site of the outbreak were slaughtered, and the farm is now ringed by two concentric zones designed to contain the contagion: a protection zone 3km (1.8 miles) wide and a surveillance zone of 10km (6.2 miles). Also inside these zones is the Pirbright Laboratory, which conducts research into FMD and other diseases of farm animals. Preliminary tests revealed that...
...Lachaise is not just any cemetery. It has been a stage for grand episodes of French history for centuries. Originally a country retreat, it was named after the confessor of King Louis XIV, whose successor expelled the Jesuit priests living there in 1763. It became a cemetery in 1804. Then, in 1871--a century before Morrison's death--Parisian anarchists staged a pitched battle against their foes amid the tombstones; 147 survivors were executed against the cemetery wall and buried in a mass grave...
...mixed record in responding to the crisis. Pope John Paul II called an unprecedented meeting in Rome of all the American Cardinals in April 2002 to address the abuse scandal, but was believed to have been largely shielded in his later years from the worst details. His successor has taken a tougher line, and indeed just months before he was elected to be Pope Benedict XVI, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger wrote of the "filth" of the Church in apparent reference to the sex scandals. Among the boldest administrative moves of Benedict since his 2005 election was the disciplining last year...