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...want all the allowances auctioned to the highest bidder, a position McCain would not accept. The fossil-fuel industries want them given away. Lieberman-Warner uses a mix of giveaway and auction, a seemingly fair approach but one that has split enviros--some of whom see the bill as weak. Industry is ambivalent too. The National Association of Manufacturers is dug in against the bill. A large and growing number of corporations know that a cap is inevitable, though few have come out in favor of Lieberman-Warner. And all this leaves unanswered the problem of how to ensure that...
...Black Sea resort of Sochi this month, Russian President Vladimir Putin seemed open to a deal on missile defense, but the White House couldn't convince him that its proposed Europe-based system would not pose a threat to Russia. At home, Democrats emboldened by Bush's weak numbers and their own rising electoral prospects in November are loath to hand him a win, even on trade deals with allies like South Korea and Panama...
...even odds-on favorites for diplomatic success are in trouble. Russian President Vladimir Putin had seemed to want a deal to bookend his presidency, which ends May 7, but the divide on missile defense proved unbridgeable at talks in Sochi this month. At home, Democrats emboldened by Bush's weak numbers and their own rising electoral prospects in November are loath to hand Bush a win even on trade deals with South Korea and Panama, which as recently as last fall had seemed more achievable than the Colombia deal...
...related criticism: a fear regarding the advanced corrosion of families, whose welfare (the Catholic ones, at least) he said is the American bishops' specific responsibility. He explained that as children become adults, a "healthy family life" is a model not only for respect for proper authority, concern for the weak, and cooperation as we become adults, but for harmony among nations, all of which he feels are threatened. Although the words "healthy family life" in the U.S. usually precede a polemic against gay rights, Benedict's concerns seemed almost to predate that movement. "How can we not be dismayed...
...What was striking about the case, Baze v. Rees, was that after 36 years of extensive litigation over capital punishment, the Court is as scattered as ever. A case in which none of the justices ultimately found much merit nevertheless provoked seven separate opinions, controlled by a weak three-judge plurality...