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Like most things of consequence?summit meetings, megamergers, the creation of the latest I-technology?true power shopping takes place in hushed quarters behind closed doors and outside the purview of the average eye. And so on a recent Thursday at the Neiman Marcus store in downtown Dallas, what might have come across as a pristine but lightly traveled main floor was in fact a bustling $4 billion juggernaut in action, the unseen hum of luxury being served up like nowhere else...
That's a barely disguised dig at the Bush Administration. As soon as California, led by the moderate Republican Schwarzenegger, adopted its new emissions standards in 2004, the auto industry and other opponents filed suit insisting that such orders were the exclusive purview of the federal government. Since then, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has barred California and the other states that have followed its example (including New York) from enforcing the new codes. The states have since petitioned for special waivers - Crist says Florida will join that effort - something the EPA is supposed to rule on this fall...
...also struggling to keep up. Shipments of FDA-regulated goods from China have jumped fourfold over the past decade, according to the Congressional Research Service. But the FDA has only 1,317 field investigators for 320 ports of entry. The agency inspects just 0.7% of all imports under its purview, half of what it did 10 years ago. We've dropped our guard...
...Wednesday, the Court announced that it had no jurisdiction over the case since it was under the purview of Shari'a law, effectively punting on any attempt to clear up the gray space that exists between Malaysia's two legal systems. The ruling was greeted by shouts of "God is great!" from many in the assembled crowd outside the Palace of Justice in Kuala Lumpur. More secular observers were far less jubilant. "I see this case not just as a question of religious preference but one of a potential dismantling of Malaysia's ... multi-ethnic, multi-religious [character]," warned Malik...
...doesn’t (sort of) rap, thank you very much. His special purview is spoken word, which is a form of song that emphasizes hypnotic speech, in this case between intermittent (sort of) rap and sparse instrumentation. It’s the perfect vehicle for West, who enjoys speaking. He wishes to use his album, “Never Forget: A Journey of Revelations,” to tell us “to be true to who [we] are.” Ever the believer in hard truths, he (sort of) raps at one point...