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...prove that, however, local land-control advocates must wrest power away from the feds-and that can lead to bitter confrontations. In New Mexico's Otero County, 600 angry people packed a civic center recently to rail against Washington and plan a strategy for combatting the Endangered Species Act. Otero has now formed a public lands committee to fight for its rights, and has hired a Los Angeles-based legal group, the Individual Rights Foundation, to press its claims in court. In Idaho's Lemhi County, 2,500 citizens turned out at a local fairground on a sub-zero...
...began John Hancock in perhaps the most eloquent justification of secession in the modern era. Unfortunately, such eloquence and reason are rarely to be seen nowadays, especially among those who would wrest Quebec from Canada. Just north of the border, an elaborate campaign is being waged to coax Quebec to sovereignty. It is poorly conceived, desperate and groundless. Thank God Quebecers are smart enough to see right through...
...appears to be their intent to tear down the J.C. Nichols Company, and me personally, in an attempt to gain operating control of the Company," McCarthy said in the statement. "It is a sad commentary that a former business partner would stoop this low to wrest control of the Nichols Company...
...babies. Well over 6 ft. tall and thin as his pinstripes, with a smile that never seems to reach his eyes, Huffington manages to escape without having a real conversation with anyone. At his next and last stop, he thanks volunteers and ticks off his reasons for trying to wrest away the seat of California Senator Dianne Feinstein. He says she is for Big Government, high taxes, socialized medicine, a weak defense and special interests...
...culture of deception. TIME has reconstructed events of the key month of February to show how half a dozen Clinton aides, including those closest to the President and his wife, pressed officials at the Treasury Department and the Resolution Trust Corporation earlier this year to maintain or wrest control of the RTC's probe of Madison Guaranty, a failed Arkansas savings and loan linked to the Clintons...