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...geography professor striving to get students to think globally, and I find your list to be disappointing. Tim Russert, Suze Orman, Miley Cyrus, etc., among the "most influential people in the world"? Really? The world is home to about 6.6 billion people, and Americans account for less than 5% of that total. John A. Alwin, FIRCREST, WASH...
...Being short a needed vote is not an unfamiliar position for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who made do without South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson for more than a year after he suffered bleeding in the brain. Still, Kennedy is an unparalleled force in the Senate, an engine for legislation that makes him - if judged by legislative productivity alone - the most important senator this half-century. Kennedy "has never felt that compromise is a dirty word and smart Republicans have recognized that," said Jim Manley, Reid's communications director...
...reaction was not due to partisan concern - as when South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson was hospitalized with bleeding in the brain, shortly after the Democrats won control of the Senate in 2006 and the party feared losing his seat and control of the Senate. If anything were to happen to Kennedy, his seat would remain securely in Democratic hands, since a temporary replacement would be appointed by Massachusetts' Democratic Governor Deval Patrick until the next elections. The alarm felt by Democrats had little to do with the Senate's balance of power, but rather from contemplating for the first time...
...geography professor striving to get students to think globally, and I find your list to be disappointing. Tim Russert, Suze Orman, Miley Cyrus, etc., among the "most influential people in the world"? Really? The world is home to about 6.6 billion people, and Americans account for less than 5% of that total. Are your choices really apt for a global community? John A. Alwin, FIRCREST, WASH...
...kind of police dysfunction that may have been involved in Millan's demise won't be easily fixed by a three-year plan. Some cite "concerns that [the plan] will not do enough to address the institutional weaknesses that allow violence and impunity to flourish" in Mexico, says Tim Rieser, an aide to Vermont Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy. "The problems are deeply rooted and there needs to be a broader, sustainable approach...