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Given that Ashcroft has firmly opposed affirmative action, has accepted an honorary degree from Bob Jones University and has written admiringly of the Confederate cause, would he function effectively as the enforcer of the nation's civil rights laws? Given that Ashcroft as Missouri attorney general used his office to file a harassing lawsuit against the National Organization of Women, would he use his new office to promote equality? Given that he has expressed little support for antitrust efforts such as the Microsoft case and that his legislative record has earned near-zero ratings from environmental groups, would he adequately...
...says. The same is true in Pulaski, Va. (pop. 10,000), where OxyContin has overtaken cocaine and marijuana. Property crime is up 50%, says police chief Eric Montgomery. Four overdoses have been confirmed so far by police, who suspect more than have been reported. More alarming, says U.S. Attorney Bob Crouch, is a recent survey of students in southwestern Virginia indicating that 20% of high school kids and 10% of middle school kids know about OxyContin and how to obtain...
...against the confirmation of David Satcher, a distinguished black physician, as surgeon general, because Satcher opposes a ban on late-term abortions. In 1998 Ashcroft told the neo-segregationist magazine Southern Partisan that Confederate war heroes were "patriots." In 1999 he accepted an honorary degree from South Carolina's Bob Jones University, which hadn't yet dropped its ridiculous ban on interracial dating...
Elvis is not leaving the building. Neither is Mrs. Elvis. Bob Dole was onto something when he once joked that it would take a SWAT team to get the Clintons out of the White House. After secretly checking out houses as storied as the Auchincloss mansion in Georgetown, the couple agreed last Friday to buy a six-bedroom, seven-bath, $2.8 million colonial on a third of an acre in an exclusive neighborhood. Secluded and quietly elegant, it has a spectacular garden in back, with a pool tucked in amid hundred-year-old trees. Nearby is the Naval Observatory...
...assists. "It was a great moment, the kind of moment I will cherish for a long time," said Lemieux, who speaks sports cliche in French and English. His teammates/employees welcomed him back with enthusiasm, and were heard openly contemplating the advantages of a co-worker boss. Said defenseman Bob Boughner: "I'm going to take him out on the first road trip, get him drunk and talk contract...