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...celebrities fail to mention that they are being paid. Just last week CNN (which is owned by AOL Time Warner) announced that from now on, it will always disclose any such financial ties during an interview, and the three major broadcast networks have suggested that they will follow suit...
...funding if Israel persisted in expanding its West Bank settlements and cajoling the Shamir government into diplomatic negotiations with the Palestinians. Key architects of that policy, such as former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and former Secretary of State James Baker, have urged the current Bush administration to follow suit...
...color: "As I looked at your tricolored 'USA' in the cover headline, I wondered when the U.S. changed its colors to red, white and periwinkle blue." A plainspoken Maryland man thought the Boss could use a change: "This bum needs to get a haircut, a shave and a decent suit!" But it was the man behind the camera who was the focus of attention for a San Diego woman. "Gregory Heisler's cover portrait of Bruce Springsteen is amazing. Heisler's use of color and light are original, pure genius...
This didn't suit many of the environmental groups involved in the negotiations that believed the market was just a clever way for corporations to skirt environmental regulations. Says Katie McGinty, then chairwoman of Clinton's Council on Environmental Quality: "Practically every utility in the country began to accept the notion that they would face legally binding carbon restrictions. But environmentalists who were opposed to doing anything consensual with industry said what we really should be doing is suing their butts under the current provisions of the Clean Air Act." Result: today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has no ability...
...right to enact laws covering criminal offenses, which can only be passed by the country's national assembly. The central government's Law Minister recently promised that Terengganu's hudud laws would soon be challenged in court, though legal analysts say they expect the government to allow the suit to come from a private individual or group, not from the Attorney General. Says P. Ramasamy, a professor of political science at the Universiti Putra Malaysia: "The government is happy to let somebody else put the suit in the courts and then wait for a ruling...