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...terms of GDP per capita, France is in the bottom half of Western European economies. According to official U.S. and European economic statistics, out of 50 American states, France’s GDP per capita outperformed only Arkansas, Montana, West Virginia, and Mississippi in 2001. A recent Swedish report calculated that if the U.S. economy had been frozen in 2000, it would take France an extra 15 years of growth to catch up to the American standard...
...telephone calls to his cell phone last night requesting comment. The other two ConnectU founders, the Winklevosses, did not return an e-mail requesting comment sent yesterday afternoon. News organizations rarely are ordered to turn over documents, said Mark Goodman, executive director of the Student Press Law Center, a Virginia-based advocacy group for student free-press rights. “We’ve found that when [subpoenas] do happen, student news organizations have been able to get them quashed because they just don’t hold up,” he said. “In most...
Some Republicans are worried that the Democrats could win that kind of straight-up fight on abortion. Congressman Tom Davis of Virginia, whose previous leadership job was to raise money for Republican House members up for re-election, broke with the White House message and declared last week that overturning Roe v. Wade could "produce a political backlash" among crucial suburban voters. As for a general attack on Alito, the numbers seem to break the Democrats' way. Pollster Garin, in a survey conducted before the 1985 memo came out, found that only 43% of those polled said they thought...
...Repulblican Chairmanof the Senate Armed Services Committee wants to get a second opinion on how the war in Iraq is going, where does he turn? To the Pentagon, but not to the top brass this time. In an unusual closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill last week, Virginia's John Warner, joined by Democratic Senators Carl Levin of Michigan and Mark Dayton of Minnesota, sat across the table from 10 military officers chosen for their experience on the battlefield rather than in the political arena. Warner rounded up the battalion commanders to get at what the military calls "ground...
...Virginia Governor Mark R. Warner called for a more moderate Democratic Party in a speech last night at the Institute of Politics. “We’ve got to be willing to be bi-partisan in order to get things done. We don’t have the luxury [of fighting] in a world that is moving at Internet speed,” he said to a crowded room of Harvard Democrats. The governor, oft-mentioned as a potential presidential candidate for 2008, outlined three main issues he believes the Democrats—and the next president?...