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After waiting four months to be heard, the Border Cafe suddenly withdrew its appeal to the Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission (ABCC) and will close temporarily as a penalty for failing a fire inspection in November...
...bitterly partisan Washington, Senate Republicans can make a name by morphing into one-man roadblocks. Alabama's Richard Shelby clocked 15 minutes of fame by stopping CIA nominee Anthony Lake, who eventually withdrew. Orrin Hatch, head of the judiciary committee, last week abruptly postponed hearings for Eric Holder to be Deputy Attorney General because Holder's office once asked the IRS to delay a probe of D.C. police officers. Fifty-seven other presidential nominations are awaiting congressional approval...
...figures and have an expense account that reaches from here to eternity. Tell me again why I would want to run the nomination gauntlet to toil away in a huge government bureaucracy." Statements like that help explain why a nominee like businessman and Democratic fund raiser Terry McAuliffe withdrew his name from consideration for Secretary of Commerce. Even hush-hush high finance isn't a draw: two governorships on the Federal Reserve are vacant. Any takers...
Baird Professor of Science Gary J. Feldman rose to make a motion eliminating the current bypasses given for science Core courses for Advanced Placement test credit, but withdrew it after a short speech...
Zoeller soon paid a price for saying openly what many others were thinking secretly. K Mart, the discount chain with a big African-American clientele, unceremoniously dumped him as the sponsor of a line of golf clothing and equipment, and he abjectly withdrew from the Greater Greensboro Open tournament. "People who know me know I'm a jokester. I just didn't deliver the line well," Zoeller tearfully explained. But his real crime was not, as he and his defenders seem to think, merely a distasteful breach of racial etiquette or an inept attempt at humor. The real crime...