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...This year more than 250 migrants have perished along both sides of the border, including at least 100 this summer, when crossings are the most dangerous because of the desert heat. (In Arizona, 50 migrants died in July alone.) Immigration experts expect 2003's migrant death toll to surpass last year's total of 490, making this the deadliest 12 months for border crossings on record...
Bush, his aides now project, will raise $30 million in the first six weeks of the re-election effort, a sum likely to surpass the combined total raised in the past three months by the nine Democratic presidential candidates. You have to go back to Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election--if not the William McKinley era of business dominance of politics--to recall such a disparity between Republican and Democratic coffers. The difference, says Democratic strategist Harold Ickes, who helped Clinton get re-elected in 1996, gives the President "a breathtaking advantage." By the time the general election begins...
...Born in North Carolina, he reported for United Press before moving to Washington in 1943 to work for NBC News. Teamed with the more somber Chet Huntley, first at the 1956 political conventions and then for a 14-year run on the nightly Huntley-Brinkley Report, he helped NBC surpass CBS in the ratings and ushered in a more easygoing, intimate style that contrasted with the increasingly pontifical delivery of Edward R. Murrow and his aging band at CBS. After Huntley retired in 1970, Brinkley carried on at NBC in various anchoring and commentary roles before ABC gave his career...
...Celtic Tiger's famously sharp teeth. Although Ireland's gross domestic product grew an impressive 6.3% in 2002, its inflation, which approaches 5%, is the euro zone's highest. With prices already 12% above the euro zone's average, a new government report warns that the country will surpass Finland in 2003 to become Europe's most expensive country. In the early '90s, Ireland was one of the E.U.'s cheapest. Ireland's dilemma points to the E.U.'s bigger one-rate-fits-all policy problem: The country needs an interest rate hike to help stymie rising prices, but with...
With 14 cases still pending, the number of senior appointments will most likely surpass the level of the past two years. Last year, 23 appointments were made and 24 the year before...