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...soldiers, while most Palestinians are imprisoned in their neighborhoods, and those who wish to travel further must risk humiliation and harassment at checkpoints. And this was the norm during peacetime; since protests and fighting erupted six months ago, the Palestinian condition has deteriorated further. But this is not what CNN sees as the heart of the story...
...Evans worked as a reporter for the Associated Press, the Wall Street Journal and the Chicago Sun-Times. In 1963 he teamed with fellow journalist Robert Novak; the two subsequently penned joint columns, co-wrote several books and for nearly 20 years acted as hosts of a show on CNN...
...equivalent and molding them together into one unified bill. In other words, take the torturous negotiations and amendment-adornment that kept McCain-Feingold on the brink of death the last two weeks, double them for the House, and then multiply by four. Sunday, New York Democrat Charles Rangel told CNN he knew how it would come out: The measure would pass the House by a slim margin - and then die of a Republican "poison pill" when it goes to a conference committee. "It will never reach the President's desk," Rangel said...
...Consider this: The day before it was to pass the Senate, Chuck Hagel - who saw his own rival bill go down to McCain's last week - casually noted on CNN that McCain didn't sit on the Rules Committee, which had jurisdiction over the bill, so he didn't have a legitimate claim to sit on any committee that resolves differences between the House and Senate versions. To which top Senate Democrat Tom Daschle, appearing on CBS, replied that he would appoint McCain to the necessary committee - in one of the Democratic slots - if the Republicans refused...
...that pledge seriously. But last month similar language made it into the President's budget proposal--and more was rumored to be in his big speech to Congress, at least until lobbyists made sure it wouldn't happen. EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman touted the carbon-dioxide limits on CNN and assured other countries that Bush was serious about them. Behind the scenes, Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill argued for an even bigger push, telling Bush in a Feb. 27 memo that the main problem with the as-yet-unratified global-warming treaty was that it didn...