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...attacks on Israel by Palestinian suicide bombers are an important test in the global fight against Islamist terrorism, a campaign fiercely backed by the Christian right. So Israel is now the hottest political button for American Evangelicals. "You hear about it in the churches, on talk radio," says Ralph Reed, former head of the Christian Coalition. "In the past 30 days, I have seen this move to the top of public-policy concerns...
...from France's electoral laws, which allow multiple candidates in the first round. Jospin received just over 16% of the vote, compared with nearly 17% for Le Pen and 20% for Chirac. Other candidates of the left, together with the Greens, gathered nearly 27%. Just as some Democrats blamed Ralph Nader for Al Gore's failure in 2000, so Jospin's supporters can blame the comrades who siphoned votes away from him. Still, the question remains: Why did so many voters desert the mainstream candidates? How about: because they are bored stiff with them. Chirac first served as Prime Minister...
These numbers are not just tipping scales at Torrid. Lane Bryant, the plus-size chain, is getting trendier to draw a younger crowd. Victoria's Secret recently introduced its first 40-DD bra. And designers Tommy Hilfiger and Ralph Lauren, with plus-size lines planned, are realizing there are as many wide bodies as waifs out there...
...presidential debates, and the controversy surrounding them, brought to light another unfair organization—the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD). Green Party candidate Ralph Nader and Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan had enough support to get on the ballot in many states. However, they were excluded from the debates because of their failure to show 15 percent support in a national poll. This exclusion was a direct result of Democrat and Republican collaboration. Eight of the CPD’s nine board members are Republicans or Democrats, and the executive director is a Republican...
...Ralph Ibson, vice president of government affairs at the National Mental Health Association, agrees. "Parity is a broad way to address the second-rate way in which mental health is treated in terms of both insurance coverage and federal funding." The NMHA, which is the country's largest and oldest nonprofit group addressing issues facing people with mental illness, issued a statement Tuesday, praising the President's proposal, but urging Congress to provide full coverage to all mental health disorders. "We strongly support the Senate measure," says Ibson, "which provides a prohibition on discrimination by diagnosis. To limit parity...