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...that the government arrested Ibrahim to prevent his center from monitoring last November's parliamentary elections. The center documented a host of irregularities during the 1995 balloting, which led losing candidates to challenge the ruling party's victory in court. While it forms no part of the charges, many suspect that Ibrahim's gomlokiya wisecrack did him in. That may seem odd, since the President has laughed at the notion that his son is a pharaoh-in-waiting, and the professor has been on cordial terms with the First Family. Ibrahim taught Mubarak's wife and both of the couple...
...being drawn, the Blake-Bakley case is not quite the O.J. Simpson saga. The glamour quotient is low, and no high-speed white Ford Bronco chase has hypnotized the nation. Last week the police were only calling Blake a witness, though they have not ruled him out as a suspect. They dusted him for gunpowder traces the night of the crime and found none. Still, there is some incredulity at the split-second timing of events in the tale he tells...
...finding that the best way for the president to mollify public concern over the plan's environmental unfriendliness is to sell it as a matter of economic security - in the land of the consumer, lower prices are still king. But those pollsters are also hearing that many voters suspect that this energy "shortage" and its attendant price hikes have been drummed up by a profiteering...
...Cheney is also a walking, talking, lip-curling reminder of Bush's most-exposed flank. Republican pollsters are finding - and Democrats are counting on it to be true - that not only are Americans wary about a wholesale trampling of the environment, they strongly suspect that their current energy woes have a lot to do with profiteering energy companies that are making such a good buck in these days of economic slowdown...
...whole energy policy is leaving congressional Republicans very nervous, especially in the House, where they're all up for re-election in 2002. Their opinion polls show that most people suspect that this energy shortage is contrived by Big Oil and the energy companies, and if gas prices are bad this summer, they're likely to blame Bush, Cheney and the Republicans for not doing enough about...