Bush's Megaphone Unable to Reach Above the Din
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/05/us/politics/05bush.html?ref=politics
By JIM RUTENBERG
President Bush's carefully honed attacks on Democrats as soft on
terrorism have been drowned out by the Mark Foley case and its
political repercussions.
Making a Profit and a Difference
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/05/business/05sbiz.html?ref=business&pagewanted=all
By GLENN RIFKIN
In Michigan, more small, local businesses are inclined to embrace
social responsibility and promote environmental health.
Plans Unveiled for State-Financed Stem Cell Work in California
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/05/us/05cell.html?ref=science
By NICHOLAS WADE
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine issued a plan for
how it would spend the $3 billion assigned by the state's voters to
finance stem cell research.
New Star Among the Democrats
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/04/AR2006100401540.html
By David S. Broder
Thursday, October 5, 2006; Page A33
BOSTON -- The buzz here this autumn is all about the newcomer to
elective politics who is threatening to break the hold that Republicans
have had for an unusually long time on the governorship of this
overwhelmingly Democratic state.
His name is Deval Patrick. Barely two years after he moved back to
Massachusetts from a business career that had taken him to New York and
Atlanta, he beat two better-known and better-financed opponents for the
Democratic nomination in last month's primary. Now he is favored over
Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey, the Republican nominee to succeed Gov. Mitt
Romney, who is moving on to pursue the presidency.
What Goeth Before the Fall
By George F. Will
Thursday, October 5, 2006; Page A33
The Reverend Elmer Gantry was reading an illustrated pink periodical
devoted to prize-fighters and chorus girls in his room at Elizabeth J.
Schmutz Hall late of an afternoon when two large men walked in without
knocking.
"Why, good evening, Brother Bains -- Brother Naylor! This is a pleasant
surprise. I was, uh -- Did you ever see this horrible rag? . . . I was
thinking of denouncing it next Sunday. I hope you never read it."
-- Sinclair Lewis, "Elmer Gantry"
In life as in literature, Elmer Gantry is a recurring American figure.
He is making yet another appearance in the matter of former
representative Mark Foley.
Al-Qaeda's Far-Reaching New Partner
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/04/AR2006100402006_pf.html
Salafist Group Finds Limited Appeal in Its Native Algeria
By Craig Whitlock
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, October 5, 2006; A01
PARIS -- In a video released last month on the Internet, al-Qaeda's
deputy leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, declared that he had "great news."
Al-Qaeda, he reported, had joined forces with an obscure Algerian
underground network and would work in tandem with the group to "crush
the pillars of the crusader alliance."
The Algerian partner, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, had
fought the Algerian government in a barbaric civil war for almost a
decade. But Zawahiri said the new alliance had different targets in
mind. "Our brothers," he said, "will be a thorn in the necks of the
American and French crusaders and their allies, and a dagger in the
hearts of the French traitors and apostates."
Averting a crash on the European express
John Palmer
October 5, 2006 12:07 PM
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/john_palmer/2006/10/unblocking_turkeys_road_to_eur.html
The declaration in Brussels this week by the European commissioner
responsible for negotiations on Turkey's application to join the EU
that "there is still time to prevent a train crash" which would bring
the talks to a sudden halt is good news. Olli Rehn knows in just five
weeks time the European Commission must decide whether or not to
recommend that membership negotiations with Turkey should continue or
be called off. Little wonder then that the Turkish prime minister,
Recep Erdogan, also found time this week to stop off en route from
Washington to Ankara to lobby Tony Blair for continued support for
Turkey's EU application. A great deal will hang on the final decision -
to be taken by EU heads of government at their December summit in
Brussels - about the entire future of Turkey's accession negotiations.
Thirty years after Turkey's original application for EU membership, the
union agreed last year that negotiations could at least begin. Since
then the political atmosphere has turned very sour. Rightwing populist
politicians in some west European countries have campaigned against
admitting Turkey on the grounds that its Muslim culture makes it too
different to Christian Europe. They have also been quick to exploit the
issue of migration to paint an alarmist picture of the gradual
Islamicisation of Europe by Turkey. But even among those who reject the
bigoted confessionalism of the anti-Turkey lobby, there are many who
question whether the EU - which will have 27 member-states next January
- can possibly handle the integration of such a large and complex
country before it has strengthened its own collective capacity to
decide and to act.
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