Word: vermonters
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...rush to war." But one of the first questions Kerry got from a student in the audience challenged him to explain why he voted last fall in favor of a resolution authorizing force in Iraq. The speech drew the first attack from within the Democratic field, when Vermont Governor Howard Dean accused Kerry of "trying to have it both ways...
...that measure in July, people who faced workplace retaliation as a result of speaking out against wrongdoing at their companies were at the mercy of a patchwork of state and federal laws. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was supposed to change all that, say Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Republican Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa. They added a provision shielding people who provide information to any member of the House or Senate. But when Bush signed the bill last summer, he issued a statement suggesting an important qualifier: the government would protect whistle-blowers only after Congress has authorized...
...morning after Al Gore declared on 60 Minutes that he wouldn't be running for President, three urgent phone messages were left for Hollywood producer Rob Reiner by prominent Democrats: North Carolina Senator John Edwards, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry and Vermont Governor Howard Dean. Reiner, who had been Gore's most loyal backer in Hollywood, is the hottest ticket in politics these days--someone not only capable of writing big checks, but willing to ask his friends to do it as well. Last week the Hollywood shuffle repeated itself. Minority leader Tom Daschle had barely taken...
...Beware the Perilous Story Line As much as anything, what killed Gore in 2000 was the rap that he was a stiff who couldn't stop telling whoppers. Perceptions are jelling that Edwards is callow, Kerry aloof and patrician, Gephardt yesterday's news. Dean? Well, he's from tiny Vermont...
...came in 1840, when the Census included a question on "idiocy/insanity." From that single category flowered many more disorders, but each asylum classified them differently. The DSM was first published in 1952 so that "stress reaction" would mean the same in an Arkansas hospital as it does in a Vermont...