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...other hand, when asked last month about their views on DeLay in an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, 42% responded "don't know name" or "not sure." For those who did know him, DeLay was viewed positively by 17%, 21% neutral and 20% negative. DeLay, while holding major sway in the Republican Party, remains at most the fourth most important Republican in Washington after President Bush, House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Senate Leader Bill Frist. Hastert, of course, isn't a household name either; in a CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll, 25% had never heard of him and 31% had no opinion...
...unclear how MICHAEL JACKSON'S planned parade of witnesses will sway the jury in his child-molestation trial. But here's a quick guide to how the celebs' careers may fare if they appear...
That three newcomers suddenly hold such sway over the future of haute couture--the handcrafted, custom-made clothes that purists consider fashion's highest art form--was just one of many reminders last week of the fashion industry's turmoil. And the dislocations are by no means confined to the rarefied levels of couture. Tremors are shaking up ready-to-wear too. In the late 1990s luxury groups like Gucci and Prada began snapping up stakes in labels by ultracool but often young and untested designers. Now the money men are losing patience and no longer want to wait...
...sanction their break with England, America's founders in 1776 invoked Voltaire, Locke and other philosophers more optimistic, even revolutionary, in spirit than Montesquieu. But it was from the warier sage of La Br??de that the Constitution's framers learned how to fashion a lasting government. Under his sway, the framers insisted on a Judiciary separate from the other branches of government. And drawing on the Frenchman's ideas, the framers also designed a Legislative Branch of government with two houses, each to check the other...
...stairwells had not collapsed, blocking some exit routes. The Trade Center depended on a complicated structural system of interior and exterior steel columns. Many new towers favor superstrong concrete cores that not only brace more firmly against wind--and at 2,000-plus feet, you don't want to sway much--but also enclose emergency stairwells in solid...