By any measure, he’s made a remarkable comeback after being ostracized for seeming to endorse past segregation practices at a birthday party for Sen. Strom Thurmond. He isn’t sick, he says he isn’t fighting off scandal, and at 66 he’s still in his prime, by Senate standards. Even so, he’s been in Congress for 35 years, and it’s not unreasonable to think he might want to do something with his life other than save the country from Democrats....
Although City started the game on a good foot with a goal from Sergio Aguero, which was assisted by David Silva, it wasn’t long before Ashley Young equalized and the game turned United’s way. Marouane Fellaini, Juan Mata, and Chris Smalling were the others to score for the home side, while Aguero contributed one more goal for City to make the final score 4-2. The win against Manchester City solidified United’s position in the top four....
Not convinced? Even DaimlerChrysler seemed unsure last week, when it was grinding gears trying to figure out the best way to pitch its new king-of-the-road 4-by-4. On Wednesday it revealed plans to launch the snub-nosed behemoth in America in 2002, with a modest sales goal of about 1,000 units a year. Unimog–German shorthand for universal motorized machine–is a work truck that’s been used to haul military troops and fight fires for 50 years....
As the old Soviet centrally planned economy continues to collapse, the country is caught in the Great Russian Depression. However shabby the welfare state of the former Soviet Union, it did provide security. That is now in very short supply. On top of all this is the resentment and humiliation that many Russians feel as they struggle with the question of identity. The empire is gone; dialectical materialism has given way to Madison Avenue materialism....
The announcement follows years of research and the most comprehensive reconstruction of the Mediterranean’s geological history, a process that involved extensive mapping of the region’s seas and mountain ranges over the last 240 million years. It was particularly challenging because geologically-speaking the area is incredibly complex—or, as lead investigator Douwe van Hinsbergen explained, it’s “a mess”. “It is quite simply a geological mess: everything is curved, broken, and stacked,” van Hinsbergen, a professor in global tectonics and paleogeography at Utrecht University, said in a statement....
What’s the hurry? Why not wait awhile and see how the economy plays out? Treating long-term projections like they’re facts is folly. For heaven’s sake, even the Great Greenspan screwed up a short-term forecast last fall by not seeing that the economy was softening. That mistake is why he’s cutting interest rates so sharply, an economic cardiologist trying to keep his patient from croaking. So answer me this: if the plugged-in experienced Greenspan couldn’t foresee the economy four months ahead, how can anyone think the Congressional Budget Office (or anyone) can foresee the economy 10 years ahead?...
Common Sense Issues is a tax-exempt group registered in Delaware whose organizers have acknowledged the use of controversial telephone polling tactics to promote Huckabee’s presidential bid—and allegedly to trash the campaigns of the former Arkansas governor’s rivals. The nonprofit also helped set up and run Trusthuckabee.com, a Web site that was involved in front-line efforts to recruit and mobilize Huckabee supporters to turn out for the Iowa caucuses. Rival candidates have criticized Common Sense Issues’s tactics, questioning whether the group’s ties to the Huckabee campaign are really arms-length—as required by federal law....
For Rockwood, the Army’s passivity was intolerable. The son, grandson and great-grandson of military men, he once studied to be a Roman Catholic priest. His duty to obey his commander conflicted with his duty to his conscience. So he decided to take matters into his own hands: to personally liberate the most notorious of Haitian prisons, the National Penitentiary. Rockwood’s defiance of orders cost him his career, and his story, taken from interviews and his court-martial record, dramatically illustrates the dilemma of a modern peacekeeping Army....
With Democratic losses looming, the blame game has already begun. Former House whip Tony Coelho, an unpaid adviser to the Democratic National Committee, is drawing fire for promising more money to California gubernatorial candidate Kathleen Brown’s flagging campaign without first checking with the White House. The DNC has so far refused to cough up. Democratic sources say Coelho’s freewheeling ways could cost him a shot at running Clinton’s ‘96 campaign: ““He’s a total lone ranger,’’ says a DNC official....
Judges in the case seemed to follow a reverse logic. “Hong Kong is at an early stage” in its transition to Chinese rule, wrote Chief Justice Andrew Li in the unanimous decision. Protecting the “unique symbolism” of the flag will help “national unity and territorial integrity.” Undoubtedly, it will also help remind Hong Kong’s 6.7 million residents who really calls the shots.
Given his recent track record, Allen may be singing about his business decisions. The man who helped build Microsoft, then bailed from Bill Gates’s side in the early ’80s (and kept his Microsoft stock) is showing a remarkable reverse Midas touch: many of his companies are doing horribly. Charter Communications, a cable company based in St. Louis, sits at the center of Allen’s vision for a wired world, with broadband carrying interactive entertainment into our living rooms....
ln districts across the country, public schools are experimenting with sexual segregation, in the name of school reform. There is no precise tally, in part because schools are wary of drawing attention to classes that may violate gender-bias laws. But, researchers say, in more than a dozen states–including Texas, Colorado, Michigan and Georgia–coed schools are creating single-sex classes. Some, like Marsteller, believe that separating the sexes will eliminate distractions. Others, like Robert Coleman Elementary in Baltimore, made the move primarily to get boys to work harder and tighten up discipline....
To the astonishment of all, Nixon, instead of just passing, chose to exercise his right of rebuttal to comment on the answer, embarking on a flight of sanctimony. For example: “I see mothers holding their babies up so they can see a man who might be president … I can only say that I’m very proud that President Eisenhower restored … good language to the conduct of the presidency. ....
Lorenzo will not feature in Sunday’s race after he was involved in a horror accident during FP2 – the 31-year-old rider thrown into the air and off the track. A technical problem with Lorenzo’s Ducati was cited as the reason for the crash at Buriram International Circuit, where the Spaniard was seventh fastest at the time of his fall. Aside from some contusions to his wrist and ankle, Lorenzo – who was already nursing a dislocated toe and fractured second metatarsal from Aragon last month – avoided serious injury....
“It’s something we’ve given a lot of thought to,” LA 2024 CEO Gene Sykes said on a conference call with reporters. “We’ve actually worked closely to get help from city and state and county officials who deal with security and we actually will take some steps that we’ll be ready to announce in the next several weeks that will reflect the kinds of things that we expect to do. It’s obviously a very high priority for us....
Well, it's not a mascot, except it is. The Dodgers just don't want you to call it that. The team debuted a giant, child-like bobblehead mascot-thingy, and while the team may not be branding it as a "official team mascot," we all know what it is. MORE: Opening day photos | Must-follow list | Early Puig fatigue? | Fantasy Baseball podcast But executive vice president of marketing Lon Rosen doesn't see it that way....
According to Brandon ‘Scoop B’ Robinson of Heavy.com, James wants the Lakers to hand their final roster spot to Anthony, however, Los Angeles management is reportedly looking elsewhere: For more than a decade, Carmelo Anthony was one of the NBA’s most feared scoring forces thanks to prolific spells with both the Denver Nuggets and New York Knicks. Nevertheless, the 34-year-old has struggled to adapt to the changes that have hit the NBA in recent years, and due to his inability to defend, Anthony’s latest spell with the Houston Rockets lasted just 10 games....
Lost Ark is filled with content for players to enjoy in the forms of both PVE and PVP content, the crown jewel being the MMOs endgame which consists of several types of raid-like activities. There are several challenging activities for players to participate in once level 50 is reached; however, the do’s and dont’s may be a little tricky. Here are some things about Lost Ark’s endgame that players should know....
The reasoning for this is simple, Alberhastic is one of the more mechanically complex Guardians in the game, outside of something like Argos of course, and is in a similar tier to the most dreaded fights like Tytalos or Achates. Thankfully, Alberhastic isn’t quite as unforgiving as it used to be, as one of the first balance patches in the Western release of Lost Ark made it a bit more forgiving....
