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...presented as the Undergraduate Council Website Redevelopment Act, called for a new website that would provide students with “a multitude of meaningful services,” including access to the common grants application, an online room-reservation system, and a student events calender. The proposal was withdrawn later Sunday evening after a flurry of e-mails over the UC and House open lists—from representatives and non-representatives alike—criticized the proposed expenditure. In an e-mail posted to the UC general list, former UC representative Meghan M. Tieu...
...transcript of the show recorded Tuesday, he says Rove gave him permission to make public their conversation, which occurred two days before Bush's announcement. In brief: Rove assured him Miers was a strong Evangelical Christian-and that some other female candidates supported by the Right had withdrawn their names from consideration...
...According to Dobson, Rove said the President "was looking for a certain kind of candidate, namely a woman." Rove added that Miers "was at the top of the short list of names under consideration," but that others had withdrawn from consideration. "Some of the other candidates who had been on that short list, and that many conservatives are now upset about, were highly qualified individuals that had been passed over," Dobson says. "What Karl told me is that some of those individuals took themselves off that list and they would not allow their names to be considered, because the process...
...important first step that (the Shiite parties) have withdrawn the ruling, but this entire episode has convinced many of us that they will try anything to win the referendum," Saleh Mutlaq, one of the Sunni leaders who have been negotiating with the government over the constitution, told TIME. The transitional constitution drawn up by the U.S. holds that the new charter can be defeated if it is rejected by two thirds of voters in any three of Iraq's 18 provinces. That was always going to be a tall order for the Sunnis, because although they make up the majority...
...there's the sad lesson of Vioxx and its ilk. That category of painkillers captured a $5 billion-a-year market on the celebrated promise that they were safer than older, cheaper analgesics like Tylenol or Advil. In this case, as the nation learned when Vioxx and Bextra were withdrawn and Celebrex got slapped with a black-box warning, we were paying a premium to trade a sizable risk of tummy trouble for a smaller but still troubling risk of heart attacks and strokes...