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...similar charge about President Bush's plan to tighten the border with Mexico and establish a limited guest-worker program. He is about to publish an anti-immigration manifesto, Whatever It Takes, that should rile up right-wing radio just as the White House was hoping to gain traction for a broad immigration-reform package...
...extremely active group on campus) and on the strength of the Dems endorsement (given that in the macroworld you have a Republican administration in the White House with waning approval numbers), and based on the fact that this other ticket [Voith-Gadgil] that seems to have some good traction has two groups coming out against them right now, I think that it’s going to be the Dems- and BSA-endorsed ticket [Haddock-Riley] that will win.” —Mark A. Price ’98, former UC vice-president “Wait...
...expense of his own popularity. Lately, with the Vice President making a signature issue out of opposing new restrictions on the treatment of suspected terrorists, the price has been steep. In one poll, Cheney's approval rating slipped into the 20s, and a former White House nemesis has gained traction on the issue. Republican John McCain, the Senate's most famous prisoner of war, has won strong bipartisan support for a ban on inhumane treatment of suspected terrorists and other detainees, and is fighting Cheney's push for an exemption for the CIA. With the issue in the headlines, McCain...
...plan, said Col. Stephen Davis, commander of the Regimental Combat Team-2, which is directing this battle, is to deny the insurgents the ability to create sanctuaries, such as they had done in Fallujah before November 2004. This is the "ink-spot" theory of counterinsurgency that has been gaining traction in recent months-the U.S. takes an area with overwhelming force, then holds it for six months to a year before moving on to the next insurgent strongholds, spreading like an ink spot across a tablecloth...
...Companies such as Subaru and Mitsubishi are tinkering with hybrid systems that place the electric motors at the wheels to give the vehicles more power and traction when they switch to four-wheel drive. For now, these types of hybrids are specifically designed to appeal to drivers who like to go off-road. However, the same layout will also become more common as the hybrid evolves and electric motors at the wheels become the primary source of power, Gauthier predicts. "Over time, you move to a vehicle where the internal combustion engine isn't connected to the driveline," Gauthier says...