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...Elizabeth Garrett, professor of law and political science at the University of Southern California in LA, says it will be difficult for Schwarzenegger to get the Democrats to coooperate with him in the next year. "He is facing a very tough year. As a Republican governor with a Democratic legislature, it will be very hard to reach any compromise-they won't want to give him anything in a pre-election year. And voters aren't in a forgiving mood. "California has just spent $50m on a special election which got them nothing-everything was voted down," Garrett notes. "People...
Diwali, also known as Deepavali, is the most widely celebrated holiday in Hinduism. In northern India, Diwali celebrates the return of the legendary King Rama with lamps to light his way. In southern India, the holiday is associated with the god Vishnu’s gift, a lamp of knowledge...
...Ruggiero progresses in her story, which takes her from a gritty upbringing in Southern California to prestigious schools in the east, to Olympiads in Nagano and Salt Lake City, and on to a role as humanitarian and ambassador of her sport around the world, she is careful to show how she has matured as both a player and a person...
...Echo, Fox and Golf companies, from the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines took the southern slice of the city, which runs almost two miles west to east, while units from the 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines moved into the northern half. Embedded with Fox and Golf companies of the 2/1, This reporter saw little fighting in the first three days of the operation, but had advanced about halfway through the city by mid-day Monday. By then, one Marine from the 3/6 had been killed and several others from the 2/1 wounded. The number of insurgents killed was unknown, with estimates ranging...
...vast, tawdry grotto in Birmingham, England, and then, a year later, all the way to Lapland. In between, though, Seal comes to admire Santa's prototype, as he tracks the shape-shifting Byzantine bishop St. Nicholas across 17 centuries of Christendom. Born in Christian Myra (now Demre) in southern Turkey in 280 A.D., Nick was sainted for anonymous gift giving to needy folk, and nominated a guardian of seafarers. After his bones were removed by Italian raiders to the port of Bari in 1087, prisoners, prostitutes, pawnbrokers and others flocked to his patronage. Soon, every Christian city wanted a piece...