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...Bush's popularity had descended to an all-time low, the most recent numbers reflect a slight improvement for the President. Despite those gains, however, Bush's approval rating (40% last week) remains dismal. So why is President Bush happy? "Well, according to those expert fellows," the President might explain, "the margin of error on these things is really small, so that means we're making less errors, and that's a good sign. And here's something else that folks should keep in mind. There hasn't been a big hurricane in this country in a couple of days...
...service non-profit with the idea to give the money to the UC or another charitable organization,” Boiko said.The EC also said Monday that any campaign found to be buying votes would “almost certainly” be disqualified.Boiko advanced several theories to explain the lack of demand for UC votes, in addition to the EC’s threat.“Either the entire student body was opposed to buying votes, or no student cared enough to pay for a second UC election vote,” Boiko said. Though few ultimately showed...
...down the aisle, with his wife close behind him. "She was running behind him saying, 'He's sick. He's sick. He's ill. He's got a disorder," McAlhany recalls. "I don't know if she said bipolar disorder [as one witness has alleged]. She was trying to explain to the marshals that he was ill. He just wanted to get off the plane...
...learn from us.” In front of a 40-person audience, Sennott compared the events of Sept. 11 and the July 7 bombings in London. “The two events are quantitatively different,” Sennott said. He went on to explain that on Sept. 11, foreign terrorists came to America with the intention of carrying out an attack while the London bombings were perpetrated by second-generation British Muslims who felt disconnected from Britain. “Why haven’t we seen a homegrown terrorists cell in the United States...
...According to a witness, Alpizar suddenly ran off of American Airlines Flight 924, which had stopped off in Miami en route from Medellin, Colombia, to Orlando. He was pursued by two air marshals who were aboard the flight while his wife, Anne Buechner, tried to explain that Alpizar was ill and had not taken his medication. "When the incident began and he uttered something to the effect that he had a bomb, the federal air marshals came out of cover," Jim Bauer, special agent in charge of the Miami field office of the Federal Air Marshal Service, told TIME. "They...