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...already working collaboratively with departments, centers, and other units of FAS to develop [fiscal year 2011] budgets in line with the guidance issued on February 4,” FAS spokesperson Jeff Neal wrote in an e-mailed statement on behalf of Kirwan...
...believed there was a commonsense, nonideological way to cut the deficit, if only the two parties would stop bickering. His approach was simpleminded and ego-driven, but it forced both parties to make serious efforts to address the problem, and by the mid-'90s they had come together on behalf of fiscal discipline...
...everyone would consider the animal-lawyer initiative frivolous, however. Proponents say the current laws dealing with animal abuse aren't strong enough to secure convictions against those suspected of cruelty, so having a court-appointed lawyer act on the behalf of animals makes a lot of (horse) sense. "Humans accused of animal cruelty can hire a lawyer or get one assigned, but animals cannot," Antoine Goetschel, an animal-rights advocate and lawyer, told London's Sunday Times. "Which is where I come in." (Read "Identity Crisis for the Swiss...
...harsh tone from Beijing stings even more since the E.U. had hoped its new Lisbon Treaty - intended to create a more streamlined institution with a strong President and Foreign Minister speaking on its behalf - would ensure the bloc would have a bigger presence on the global stage. But China has historically sought to exploit the E.U.'s internal divisions to fuel its economic growth, not deal with the bloc as a whole. All of the E.U.'s biggest members have cozied up to Beijing at one point or another in the hopes of guaranteeing lucrative trade deals. (See pictures...
...Wednesday, Feb. 3, the Hollywood-based political auteur released his latest creation: a three-minute YouTube spot attacking Republican Senate candidate Thomas Campbell on behalf of his rival, Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO now running in the GOP Senate primary. The ad was so weird - employing montages of pigs and sheep, a robotic wolfman dressed in wool, graphic illustration evoking Monty Python - that it spread online like swine flu on a pig farm...