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...while he failed to win the office his brother had once held, Kennedy carved out for himself a niche as one of the senate’s most powerful legislators...
...since many of their plans are worth as much as $25,000 a year. He convened some of the more vocal opponents last month. "I'm doing what Teddy Kennedy would do ... I'm finding a compromise to get a bill passed," he told the group. Kerry didn't win them over, but they did pledge not to oppose the proposal. (See the most notorious presidential pardons of all time...
...carbon credit for growing and maintaining trees, we could encourage the growth of agroforestry. It's not a perfect compensation for continued deforestation - whole, virgin rain forests have an enormous ecological value that can't be replicated by agroforestry - but it's a realistic fallback. "This is a win-win investment opportunity for the world," says Garrity. It's also a rare bit of green good news...
...Shrugs and WorldNetDaily, have been lighting up over the Rifqa fight. No doubt conservative and anti-U.S. Muslims will eventually step into the media frenzy. And politicians have already started weighing in. Florida's moderate Republican governor and U.S. Senate candidate, Charlie Crist, who needs conservative voters to win his state's closed GOP primary next year, issued a statement on Aug. 21 saying he's "grateful to Circuit Judge Daniel Dawson for his decision to grant [Rifqa] the right to remain in Florida ... We will continue to fight to protect Rifqa's safety and well-being...
...time, says Haroun Mir, director of the Afghan Center for Research and Policy Studies. "If one group feels left out, it will create problems for everybody," Mir says. Indeed, Abdullah's campaign manager told an Abu Dhabi-based newspaper last month to predict street violence if Abdullah didn't win. (Abdullah, in damage-control mode, said his manager was misquoted...