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...Enforcing its new ban on selling used underwear, eBay yanked at least four auctions of "hot and nasty" undergarments...
...allow environmentally damaging riders attached to otherwise popular spending bills to creep out of Congress and become law without the threat of a presidential veto. "Rolling back is not going to be easy," says George Frampton of the Council on Environmental Quality. "But sitting on one's hands for four years is going to be easy, and we can't afford that...
...Meet the Press," Tim Russert asked Dick Gephardt three or four times whether he considered that George W. Bush would be "the legitimate President...
...what's keeping this process in place today? Some of its defenders consider the electoral college a safeguard against citified control over the election process. If we abandon the current system, the argument goes, and popular vote gains preeminence, the inhabitants of the nation's four or five most populated states might decide presidential elections on their own. And while residents of said states might not have a problem with such an outcome, folks out in North Dakota and Montana might see things a bit differently. Citizens of sparsely populated areas (and the congresspersons who represent them) have grown fond...
...prepared to support him once again for prime minister, but not at its own expense. The party's 17 seats give it a kingmaking - and -breaking - role in the fractious legislature, and that's powerful leverage for a minority party. But polls indicate that it would lose between four and six seats to Likud in a parliamentary election right now. Both parties draw support primarily from immigrants from Arab countries, and analysts predict that in an election focused almost exclusively on peace and security issues, there'd be a stampede of voters from the religious party back to the secular...