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...Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of their work for "a better organized and more peaceful world"; in Oslo. Annan, who first took up the post in 1997, has already been elected to serve a second term. ELECTED. NANCY PELOSI, 61, feisty San Francisco Congresswoman, to the position of Democratic whip in the U.S. House of Representatives; in Washington, D.C. That makes her the highest-ranking Congresswoman ever...
...Congress can’t seem to figure out what to do. The chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Aviation, John L. Mica (R-Fl.), who presided over the hearing, was sympathetic to Woerth’s argument. Tom Delay (R-Texas), the House majority whip, however, is more skeptical. According to The New York Times, Delay said, “I don’t want any cowboy pilots going back to fight hijackers and leaving the plane unattended.” Across the aisle, House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.) indicated that strengthening cockpit...
...Clinton's technique of cutting deals with the opposition. "The Republicans aren't used to it, and they don't like it." And they said as much to Bush in a testy session Thursday night at the White House. Influential House Republicans, led by majority leader Dick Armey and whip Tom DeLay, the second- and third-ranking Republicans in the House, groused that it was time for Bush to pay more attention to their concerns and less to those of Daschle...
Films about suburbia typically caricature the bare, brittle conformity of lawn and lane; Michael Cuesta, director of indie fave L.I.E., finds beauty in it, intercutting sequences of whip-sharp candor with brief, glistening fantasy. In his critically-lauded rendering of an adolescent boy’s knotted relationship with an older man in the wake of his mother’s death, Cuesta is gentle, but spares his characters nothing...
...Omen 150 college students in Berkeley, California?the peacenik capital of the world?held a pro-war rally last week, calling for the United States to "whip terrorism...