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...industry to solidify itself." Animal-rights groups oppose kangaroo culling; the famously vegetarian Paul McCartney even jumped into the fray last year, speaking out against a controversial cull in Canberra. "Our organization does not encourage the eating of our national icon," says Karen Scott, vice-president of Wildcare Australia, a conservation group that rescues native animals...
...disciplined. This is not you. He's crisp. This is not you.' LESLEY STAHL, CBS News correspondent, enumerating to Vice President Joe Biden the differences between him and Barack Obama...
...this year's list. So is one of the world's most notorious drug dealers. In the end, we tried to cover as much ground as possible--and to match our subjects with pitch-perfect writers: Oprah Winfrey on Michelle Obama, Ted Turner on T. Boone Pickens (and vice versa), Roger Federer on Tiger Woods, Angelina Jolie on Cambodian activist Somaly Mam. All bring passion and expertise to their portraits. Some, like filmmaker Michael Moore on the aforementioned Madoff, bring a note of polemics...
...sounds of silence anytime soon, thanks to the Farmers & Merchants Bank, one of many corporate benefactors. "The arts are a very rich part of the fabric of a region, and these organizations depend on companies like ours for support," explains Henry Walker, the family-owned institution's executive vice president, who sits on the symphony's board. "We feel we have a responsibility to them...
Maybe the Pennsylvania Senator knew he was bound to wind up on the other side of the aisle eventually. Democrats - including Vice President Joe Biden, with whom he had shared many a ride on Amtrak when they were both commuting Senators - had been wooing him for years. Specter, 79, had been a Democrat until 1965. But when his latest turnabout finally happened, it caught the entire capital by surprise and altered everyone's calculation of what is now possible. Assuming that the interminable Minnesota recount battle finally ends with Al Franken being awarded the Senate seat - he holds...