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...giant PetroChina because of its oil operations in Sudan. The editors rightfully pointed to the connection between Harvard’s endowment funds and the atrocities in Sudan. Through its investments in companies that continue to operate in genocidal Sudan, Harvard provides political and financial cover to businesses whose tax revenues and advanced technology arm Khartoum for the battle it wages against its citizens each...
Still, in an evenly divided Senate that can turn on a single member's vote, the G.O.P. will be grateful for the help. Martinez brings an Administration-friendly vote on such issues as caps on medical-malpractice damages, Social Security privatization and extension of the Bush tax cuts. What he may not bring is much collegiality to a Senate sorely lacking...
...G.O.P. 99% of the time. He lost his 100% rating from the American Conservative Union when he supported the Medicare prescription-drug benefit, which the group opposed but President Bush backed. He also crusaded against RU 486, the so-called abortion pill, and supported replacing the federal income tax with a flat tax or national sales tax. And even if Vitter was not the favorite politician of Pelican State Republicans, they saw a chance to win Democrat John Breaux's old Senate seat and rallied to his support...
...Silvio Berlusconi nominated Foreign Minister Franco Frattini to replace Rocco Buttiglione, who had angered parliamentarians with his comments on gays and women. The Latvian government replaced its much-criticized nominee, Ingrida Udre, with diplomat Andris Piebalgs. Amid a minor reshuffle that saw Hungarian Laszlo Kovacs moved from energy to tax, Neelie Kroes - the embattled Dutch candidate for Competition Commissioner - kept her post...
...part of the equation. But most people-rightly-do not believe that a President can do much to stem the outflow of manufacturing jobs. Universal health care seems a pipe dream too. Indeed, Kerry's offering a $1,000 reduction in health-care premiums and a $4,000 tuition tax credit while he also promised to cut the budget deficit sounded like political flimflam...