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...would not stop at Gonzales. Congressional judiciary committees have already subpoenaed Harriet Miers and Karl Rove in the firings of U.S. Attorneys last year. Republicans are loath to hand Democrats some high-profile casualties to use in the 2008 campaign. Stonewalling, they believe, is their best way to avoid another election focused on corruption issues...
...Citadel offered the only immediate and comprehensive solution,” Larson wrote in his letter to investors. “The transaction enabled us to avoid anticipated forced sales at extreme prices that would have been made in order to satisfy the obligations under our counterparty agreements...
...present questions that may be too aggressive or controversial for the confines of a standard campaign interaction. One might argue that this is the whole point of a YouTube debate - and that since the Democratic candidates have already dealt with them, why should the G.O.P. candidates be able to avoid snowmen and matrimony-seeking gay couples when their rivals couldn...
...Senate Banking Committee has its own China bill, which would also make it harder for the Treasury to avoid labeling China as a currency manipulator. While the two committees have wrangled over jurisdiction in the case, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus has accepted amendments from Sen. Debbie Stabenow, the Michigan Democrat, who co-authored the Banking Committee's bill, and says he does not see the turf battle as "a big issue at all. We are both striving for the same goal...
Freighter captains avoid them as potential catastrophes; climate scientists see them as a bellwether of global warming. But now marine biologists have a more positive take on the thousands of icebergs that have broken free from Antarctica in recent years. These frigid, starkly beautiful mountains of floating ice turn out to be bubbling hot spots of biological activity. And in theory, at least, they could help counteract the buildup of greenhouse gases that are heating the planet...