President Bush’s soaring rhetoric yesterday that the United States will promote the growth of democratic movements and institutions worldwide is at odds with the administration’s increasingly close relations with repressive governments in every corner of the world.
Some of the administration’s allies in the war against terrorism — including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Uzbekistan — [...]

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On the eve of the presidential inauguration, US Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton last night embraced an issue some pundits say helped seal a second term for George W. Bush: acceptance of the role of faith in addressing social ills.
In a speech at a fund-raising dinner for a Boston-based organization that promotes faith-based solutions to social [...]

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Christian Conservative groups have issued a gay alert warning over a children’s video starring SpongeBob SquarePants, Barney and a host of other cartoon favorites.
The wacky square yellow SpongeBob is one of the stars of a music video due to be sent to 61,000 U.S. schools in March. The makers — the nonprofit We Are Family [...]

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Trash Talk TV host and Ohio Democrat Jerry Springer is headed for radio.
On Monday, Jan. 17, Springer will debut as host of a three-hour daily show (9 a.m. to Noon) on Clear Channel

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Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., urged Europe to “get over” the fact President Bush was re-elected and work with the United States on common problems.
“I spent a little time in Europe recently, and I have one simple message: Get over it. Get over it. President Bush is our president for the next four years, so get [...]

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American companies might join a long-delayed trans-Afghan natural gas pipeline project expected to be launched in 2006, the U.S. ambassador to Turkmenistan said Tuesday.
“We are seriously looking at the project, and it is quite possible that American companies will join it,” U.S. Ambassador Tracey Anne Jacobson said, speaking in Russian, after a meeting with Turkmen [...]

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