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...supports his 10 children and two wives as a day laborer, carrying soda from trucks to shops, says he is fed up with politics. He makes about $30 a month, including government benefits for the poor, because many days he cannot find work. Al-Roussi, 31, used to vote but has grown disgusted with the largesse and corruption at the top - and the suffering in the slums. "This is the only opportunity the President gives us," he says, referring to his work carrying soda. "I swear to God, if I could go to Somalia, I would...
Still, Berlusconi understands the heart of politics as much as its trimmings: the lingering images of his bloodied face might very well provide the kind of sympathy-vote reinforcement to his popularity that no legislative success - or dashing good looks - could match. A poll taken last week by the Milan daily Corriere della Sera shows Berlusconi's favorable ratings had swelled to 56% from 49% in November, with some 17% of the center-left electorate now saying they have a positive opinion of the center-right prime minister. The same survey, however, showed a disturbingly high - more than 20% - number...
After the Yale Freshman Class Council (FCC) announced this design as the winner of a class-wide vote, some concerns were raised by the Yale LGBT Cooperative about the derogatory use of the word "sissy." Then the administration was consulted and more voting took place, and the shirt design, as reported by the Yale Daily News on Nov. 19, was pulled. A boring H in a circle with a line through it would take its place...
...alienating the less impassioned Republicans who don't come out for straw polls - especially in a state with Florida's centrist and independent streak - is also risky. Crist knows they vote in primaries. They helped give him a landslide victory in the 2006 gubernatorial primary against a more conservative candidate. They also lifted John McCain, the more moderate Republican Crist backed for the presidential nomination last year, to a key Florida primary victory. (They also know, according to polls, that Crist has a better chance of defeating a Democratic candidate next fall than Rubio does.) As a result, Crist insists...
...lawmakers, angry voters denounced the supposed creeping influence of government in their lives. Democrats, meanwhile, struggled to sell a pricey overhaul amid a steep economic slump. Despite the poisonous debate, the pro-reform camp notched victories. On Nov. 7, the House passed a sweeping bill by a slim, five-vote margin. With Senators still haggling over their $848 billion measure, a final vote may be pushed...