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...higher gear than you might think a year before voters go to the polls. The Bush campaign is on track to raise $200 million, which, perhaps more than anything else, is a testament to the devotion of his supporters. And at Bush's suburban Virginia campaign headquarters, manager Ken Mehlman has taken to asking staff members who knock off early, "Does Howard Dean's staff go home...
...with allegations of unethical labor practices in the mid-1990s, Big Oil long resisted calls to clean up its act. BP and Shell were the first to change. In Shell's case, the firm was shaken by two scandals in quick succession: the execution in 1995 of Nigerian poet Ken Saro-Wiwa, who vigorously contested Shell's oil operations in Nigeria, and the company's plans that same year to sink the Brent Spar oil rig in the North Sea. Both sparked huge international protests and boycott calls that led to a change of management and a complete revamp...
London has declared war on pigeons (or "air rats," as some call them). Mayor Ken Livingstone last month imposed an $85 fine on anyone who feeds the birds in Trafalgar Square, where numbers fell from 4,000 to just 200 after a 2001 ban on feed sellers and the recruitment of a harrier hawk. But not all cities are inhospitable. In Venice, feed sellers can be fined up to $590, but those catering to the 40,000-strong flock of St. Mark's Square are exempt. Paris officially welcomes pigeons as "the only sign of biodiversity in the city center...
...throw a handful of dirt in a man's face and permanently blind him or send a dark thought across the miles and bring a woman near to death. He brings out Jones' shamanistic side, and their struggle becomes one of mind as well as muscle. But Ken Kaufman's script and director Ron Howard's admirably bleak landscapes make us believe we're in country where strange things might happen...
Yale’s got great linebackers too, in senior Ken Estrera and junior Ben Breunig, the team’s two leading tacklers. But Estrera is hurt after leaving last weekend’s game against Princeton. Breunig can’t carry the unit by himself...