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...communist boss Josip Broz Tito enough in 1974 to get himself fired from his professorship at Belgrade University. When the opportunistic Milosevic, in a campaign to win over intellectuals, offered him the job back in 1989, Kostunica refused. Considered modest and honest, a true believer in democracy and the rule of law who once translated the Federalist papers into Serbo-Croatian, he helped launch a small opposition party in 1992. The highest office he attained was a seat in the Serbian parliament from...
...wasn't joking, and it was as off-key in its own way as Dan Quayle's response in 1988 that the first thing he would do was pray. Like Quayle, Cheney has come to be seen as a drag on the ticket, violating the first rule of Veepdom: do no harm. First, there was his uncompassionately conservative record, voting no on everything from Head Start to college-student aid to the Older Americans Act, which offers support services to the elderly. This prompted the joke that Cheney's never met a welfare program he liked. When the New York...
Even advocates who had been hoping for this ruling for years were surprised at how few restrictions came with it. Though the agency had ruled mifepristone "safe and effective" back in 1996, it took four more years to find an acceptable manufacturer and figure out distribution. Last summer the FDA hinted that it was thinking of playing very tough: that only doctors who currently do surgical abortions would be allowed to prescribe mifepristone; that there might be some special certification required, or a rule that the doctor have access to an emergency room less than one hour away...
...TIME:Will that change with Vicente Fox? SALINAS: I believe that Mr Fox has made a very strong pledge for the rule of law and millions of Mexicans have great hope in that commitment. I'm one of them...
...TIME: Wasn't he following the famous Mexican rule : Blame it on the former president?" SALINAS: Yes, Zedillo revived that archaic tradition...