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...them as anybody else. I?ve lived here for so long, paid taxes for so long and my kids have to register for selective service. I guess I could be a dual citizen, but if I ever had to give up my Canadian citizenship to become American I wouldn?t do it, because I wouldn?t want to hurt Canada. I love Canada. As I get older, more and more I start singing about Canada. My wife?s a California girl, so she loves to be near the ocean, and I love to be near her. So I?m probably...
...worse gaffe, critics say, is his call last weekend for residents to return to the city without making it clear that, in most cases, they wouldn't be able to stay due to factors like toxic house mold. "Nagin just put us in a very bad situation," says Brenda Davis, 44, a resident of the Algiers district across the river from the French Quarter. She, her daughter and four grandchildren paid a stranger $220 to drive them from their evacuee housing back to New Orlean-only to find their home unlivable and with no transportation to get back...
...industry was deregulated in 1978, but you wouldn't know it from all the extra baggage it carries. The main offenders: ever increasing taxes, lack of government spending to build a modern air-traffic-control system and airports, and countless rules imposed without consideration of how the airlines can afford to comply. All told, the airline industry is the most regulated "deregulated" business out there. The government, oddly, has been too tough on airlines in some respects (through taxation) and too accommodating in others (through anticompetitive legislation such as the Wright Amendment, which limits flights out of Dallas). The industry...
...Jack Welch. Republicans also say a surprise contender is former Commerce Secretary Don Evans, known as Bush's best friend. Meanwhile, Cheney is preparing to undergo elective surgery Sept. 24 to treat an aneurysm in an artery behind his knee and scheduled the procedure for a weekend--so he wouldn't miss a day on the job. --By Mike Allen
...roadside bomb in December, Sergeant Lizzie--who declines to share her full name--wrote about the event with the same bouncy style, flip asides, exclamation points and smiley faces. Describing herself under the destroyed truck, gashes on her face, she writes, "I made the remark that I wouldn't be pretty again LOL." The medic teases her for wearing a matching bra-and-panty set in a war zone. But in quieter moments of the blog, tinges of survivor's guilt emerge: "Why did I walk away from a wreck that killed a comrade and a friend...