Even Democrats leery of Feingold resolution
Tuesday, March 14, 2006 CRAIG GILBERT - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold's resolution to censure President Bush for what he called "illegal wiretapping" drew sharp denunciations from the White House and Senate Republicans on Monday. It also left Feingold's fellow Democrats somewhat wary and divided about the wisdom of pursuing such a rebuke of Bush's conduct.
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Cheney visits to help GOP
Sunday, March 12, 2006 GRAEME ZIELINSKI - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| His popularity numbers are plummeting and, since accidentally shooting a hunting partner in the face last month, he has been a frequent punch line on the late-night talk shows.
Despite, or perhaps because of, such realities, Vice President Dick Cheney will find himself a welcome man in the Green Bay area today when he visits, his first time here since the tumult of the 2004 election.
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Feingold stalls Patriot Act
Thursday, February 16, 2006 CRAIG GILBERT - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| Saying "too many Democrats have folded" on the issue, Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold launched a filibuster Wednesday against a plan to renew the USA Patriot Act, pushing its final approval off to early March.
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Is Washington ready to clean up its act?
Monday, January 23, 2006 CRAIG GILBERT - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| The corruption scandal now gripping this city has unleashed a flood of proposals from both parties to toughen ethics and lobbying rules.
Critics of all kinds have argued that cracking down on gifts or privately funded travel for lawmakers is nibbling at the edges of the "real problem" with Washington.
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What's the best exit from Iraq?
Sunday, November 20, 2005 KATHERINE M. SKIBA - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| Verbal hand grenades flew back and forth last week as the national debate over the course to chart in Iraq - leave now, draw down U.S. forces or perhaps even beef them up - grew intense, angry and even tearful.
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Feingold, Alito find some common ground
Thursday, November 10, 2005 CRAIG GILBERT - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| Sen. Russ Feingold expressed mixed feelings about Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito after meeting with him privately for an hour Wednesday, saying he was surprised and encouraged by Alito's comments on some legal issues but discouraged by his comments on others.
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Battle lines are drawn
Tuesday, November 1, 2005 CRAIG GILBERT - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| With the selection of federal Appeals Judge Samuel Alito for the Supreme Court on Monday, President Bush has set the stage for a political collision that has far-reaching consequences for constitutional law.
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Bush faces challenges in rescuing 2nd term
Sunday, October 30, 2005 CRAIG GILBERT - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| Second terms have become synonymous with woe for modern presidents.
But with the indictment of a top White House aide, a failed Supreme Court nomination, a mishandled hurricane, high gas prices, an acute spending squeeze and a costly war, George W. Bush faces a brew of problems that has no recent parallel.
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Fooling the White House puts joke on us
Tuesday, October 25, 2005 Eugene Kane - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| OK, now some of the stuff coming out of Washington, D.C., is beginning to make sense.
Apparently, they read The Onion, the irreverent humor publication founded in Wisconsin, and they think it's supposed to be real.
Most of us here in the sensible Midwest, of course, realize it's not.
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Use of prescribed sleeping pills is up
Saturday, October 22, 2005 GUY BOULTON - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| Sleeping pills - rechristened as sleep medications - are becoming increasingly accepted and a prescribed drug for young adults and even children.
The use of prescription sleeping pills among people ages 20 to 44 doubled from 2000 to 2004, according to an analysis of insurance claims by Medco Health Solutions, which administers prescription drug plans.
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Feingold is a party of one
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 CRAIG GILBERT - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| When the Senate Judiciary Committee endorsed John Roberts last week for chief justice of the United States, nobody's vote raised more eyebrows than the one cast by Wisconsin Democrat Russ Feingold.
That's because Feingold is weighing a bid for his party's presidential nomination in 2008. In fact, the third-term senator plans to spend Friday and Saturday in New Hampshire, home of the nation's first presidential primary.
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$3.50 gas could be next
Wednesday, August 31, 2005 MEG JONES - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| Far from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Wisconsin motorists angrily discovered the rising waters were forcing a steep increase at pumps here as service stations ran out of gas Tuesday, some retailers considered rationing and prices jumped more than 30 cents to almost three bucks a gallon.
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Is technology in schools the future or just a fad?
Sunday, August 21, 2005 AMY HETZNER - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| For the past decade, the largess of the government and taxpayers has fueled a technological explosion in Wisconsin public schools. Hundreds of millions of dollars have helped equip the average school with at least one computer for every three students.
With the expansion phase mostly over, phase two is just beginning. For many, this phase could be entitled "Now what?"
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Where teachers rule
Monday, July 18, 2005 SARAH CARR - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| As a sophomore last year at Milwaukee's Community High School, Trinisa Johnson was well-connected to people in high places. That's largely because the school is one of a growing number of so-called "teacher-led" schools.
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Cow gets its own cloned cells
Thursday, June 30, 2005 DINESH RAMDE - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| Therapeutic cloning, an experimental technique that could one day allow patients to be treated with their own rejuvenated cells, moved one step closer to reality as researchers announced a successful trial in cows Wednesday.
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Financial chasm divides senators
Monday, June 13, 2005 KATHERINE M. SKIBA - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| Herb Kohl's adjusted gross income of more than $8.54 million in 2004 means he took in an average of more than $164,000 a week. Senate colleague Russ Feingold had an adjusted gross income of just over $155,000 for the year.
The two Democratic senators again emerge as a study in contrasts in their annual financial disclosure statements and other information released to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
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Division grows in stem cell debate
Sunday, June 12, 2005 CRAIG GILBERT - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| One senator last week called it a "great national debate."
The battle over embryonic stem cell research may not rank with Iraq or the economy as a burning public concern. But it is fast becoming a fixture of the budget and culture wars in Washington, D.C., and state capitals across the country. Soon it may produce the first veto of the Bush presidency. It's likely to play a role in the 2006 congressional campaigns, and it provides a clear fault line in Wisconsin's hotly contested race for governor next year.
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1,000 more guardsmen activated
Tuesday, June 7, 2005 TOM HELD - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| More than 1,000 additional soldiers from the Wisconsin National Guard's 32nd "Red Arrow" Infantry Brigade have been called to active duty, pushing the state Guard's active commitment to Operation Iraqi Freedom to a new peak of 2,950, military officials announced Monday.
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Tough time to find 440th on hit list
Thursday, May 26, 2005 MEG JONES - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| Maj. John Gorse thought the timing could have been better.
Gorse and the rest of his six-person flight crew were in the African nation of Djibouti when someone from another 440th Air Force Reserve Airlift Wing crew told them that the unit - an integral part of Milwaukee for almost five decades - was on the dreaded list of military base closings.
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Stem cells created to match patients
Friday, May 20, 2005 JOHN FAUBER - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| Using remarkably efficient cloning techniques, South Korean researchers have created the first lines of embryonic stem cells customized to specific patients, a major advance that could accelerate the long-awaited dream of using genetically matched healthy cells to replace human cells and tissues damaged by disease and injury.
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Crossing the line?
Wednesday, May 11, 2005 MEG KISSINGER and MEG JONES - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| Kerry Lofy figures that girls get to wear dresses to the Lake Geneva Badger High School prom, so why couldn't he?
But now that he has been suspended from school for three days, is being forced to miss his last track meet (and a chance for the school's pole vaulting record) and has to pay a $249 ticket for disorderly conduct, Lofy's not so sure he picked the right battle to fight.
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Bill limits sale of cold medicines used to make meth
Wednesday, May 11, 2005 STACY FORSTER - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| Madison - By the time the next flu season inevitably rolls around, you might have to do a little advance planning when you start to feel a stuffy nose or sore throat coming on.
That's because the Legislature passed a bill Tuesday that would limit the sale of over-the-counter cold medicines that include a principal ingredient for making methamphetamine.
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Probe finds evidence of election fraud
Tuesday, May 10, 2005 GREG J. BOROWSKI - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| Investigators said today they found clear evidence of voter fraud in the Nov. 2 election in Milwaukee, including more than 200 cases of felons voting illegally and more than 100 people who voted twice, used fake names or false addresses, or voted in the name of dead people.
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Sensenbrenner amasses biggest tab, review finds
Sunday, May 8, 2005 KATHERINE M. SKIBA - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., the state's senior Republican in Congress, visited New Orleans, Las Vegas and 11 foreign countries - some overseas destinations twice - in the 14 months ending in February.
Together with his wife and two aides, Sensenbrenner amassed more than $111,000 in travel bills then, often relying on private groups to pick up the tab, according to a Journal Sentinel review.
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Both sides sizing up Clinton
Friday, April 29, 2005 CRAIG GILBERT - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| Between the banquet hall and the overflow room, Hillary Clinton will draw more than 2,000 people Friday night to Madison's Monona Terrace - an event that sold out before a single invitation was sent.
That's a hot ticket.
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Benedict inherits huge legacy
Saturday, April 23, 2005 TOM HEINEN - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| Millions of people around the world are expected to watch today as Pope Benedict XVI celebrates a Mass of inauguration outside St. Peter's Basilica and moves symbolically forward to carry on the legacy of Pope John Paul II.
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State missives miss the mark
Wednesday, April 20, 2005 STACY FORSTER - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| Edith Manke had a good sense of humor.
And if she were alive today, she'd need it.
Manke was 92 when she died Nov. 5 of congestive heart failure. But 3 1/2 months later, the state Department of Health and Family Services sent her a letter informing her that her eligibility for prescription drug coverage would end on March 31.
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Man finds $2,000 in shirt, turns it in
Thursday, April 14, 2005 TOM KERTSCHER - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| When Larry Hoffman went shopping at the Goodwill store in West Bend on April Fools' Day, he was looking for a bargain, not a treasure.
There was treasure, though, in the bargain that he found: $2,000 in cash inside the pocket of a secondhand shirt.
No one would have ever known if Hoffman had kept the money. But he gave it back.
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An improved state of mind
Tuesday, April 12, 2005 JOHN FAUBER - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| The mental skills of a small group of Alzheimer's patients improved after antibodies derived from human plasma were infused directly into their blood, according to a promising new study.
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Octane testing flaws criticized
Monday, April 11, 2005 RAQUEL RUTLEDGE - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| State lawmakers on Monday called Wisconsin's faulty octane testing program "extremely disturbing" and said they would do whatever it takes to ensure that the state's consumers don't get scammed at the gas pumps.
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Analog region in a digital economic age
Sunday, April 10, 2005 JOHN SCHMID - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| A Tokyo executive who is curious about Cincinnati, a magnet of Japanese industrial investment, lands with a casual Google search at Cincinnati-USA.org, a no-nonsense site that touts the city's strengths in Japanese and five other languages.
Where is the Internet address that promotes Milwaukee's economy far and wide in the online world?
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Patriot Act under review
Wednesday, April 6, 2005 CRAIG GILBERT - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| Revisiting a landmark law enacted six weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Congress embarked on a long debate Tuesday over the expanded police and surveillance powers of the USA Patriot Act.
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Bucher says he favors concealed weapons
Monday, April 4, 2005 DAVID DOEGE - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| Waukesha County District Attorney Paul Bucher said Monday that he supports a law that would allow residents to carry concealed weapons but refused to say whether mass shootings such as the one at a Brookfield hotel last month should propel support for legislation.
A New York Times story Sunday said recent killings such as the Terry Ratzmann shootings were spurring efforts nationally to ease gun laws and prominently quoted Bucher, who is running for attorney general, as saying, "We need to put more guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens."
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Study predicts dire future for world environment
Saturday, April 2, 2005 LEE BERGQUIST - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| A new study paints a grim picture of today's environment, arguing that the world is living far beyond its means.
But as part of the study, a University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist and other experts laid out four scenarios that offer hope that humans can turn things around.
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State springs back on political stage
Friday, April 1, 2005 CRAIG GILBERT - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| With visits by John Edwards and Hillary Rodham Clinton this month, Wisconsin Democrats are about to get a large and early dose of presidential politics, roughly three years before the state's 2008 presidential primary.
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U.S. judge prohibits two sales of timber
Friday, April 1, 2005 TOM HELD - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| A federal judge has blocked two planned sales of timber from the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest in Wisconsin, ruling that the U.S. Forest Service failed to meet legal standards in assessing the impact the harvest would have on hawks and martens.
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Southern strategy for Feingold
Wednesday, March 30, 2005 CRAIG GILBERT - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| Montgomery, Ala. - What is Russ Feingold doing deep in the heart of Bush Country?
Running for president?
"I really don't know, and I'm not going to worry about it," Feingold told the Montgomery Advertiser on Tuesday when the newspaper asked him about 2008.
Plunging into a national debate over his party's future?
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Marines prepare for a bittersweet homecoming
Tuesday, March 29, 2005 MEG JONES - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| Some Marines from Wisconsin know their tour of duty in Iraq is coming to an end because they now have things that most folks in America take for granted - good food, hot showers, flush toilets and televisions tuned to the NCAA tournament.
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Cloning's promise unfulfilled in farming
Tuesday, March 29, 2005 SUSANNE QUICK - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| In the world of biotech and biomedicine, it's usually the mouse or primate that takes center stage. But when the first cloned animal from adult cells was announced, the spotlight fell on a fleecy-white Scottish sheep named Dolly.
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Battle on judges may get nasty
Monday, March 28, 2005 CRAIG GILBERT - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| Amid an escalating war over judges, Wisconsin Sens. Herb Kohl and Russ Feingold are defending the right of Democrats to block floor votes on some of President Bush's judicial nominees, saying it's the only way for their party to have a voice in the process.
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Untangling a tragedy
Sunday, March 13, 2005 JOHN DIEDRICH - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| Armed with a handgun and two magazines of bullets, Terry W. Ratzmann walked into a religious service at a Brookfield hotel Saturday, and without a word spoken, cut down 11 fellow churchgoers in 60 seconds before one parishioner frantically asked him, "Why?"
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'IT'S HUMAN CARNAGE'
Saturday, March 12, 2005 CROCKER STEPHENSON - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| A man neighbors described as quiet and devout opened fire Saturday on a group of men, women and children attending a weekly church service at a Brookfield hotel, killing eight people - including himself - and seriously wounding four others.
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Election flaws are obvious, but only through open records
Saturday, March 12, 2005 GREG J. BOROWSKI - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| In the United States, your ballot is secret, but almost everything else about an election is part of the public record: Who voted and at what ward. Where they live. How old they are. Even what number they were in line.
Until recently, that is.
At least in Wisconsin, where a 2003 change in state law put the birth dates of voters off limits to the public, making it nearly impossible to determine whether someone voted twice, a felon voted improperly, or someone voted as a dead person.
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Even after shootings, security can lag behind
Friday, March 11, 2005 MIKE JOHNSON - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| Milwaukee County has had its own deadly courtroom shooting, nearly three years ago when a murder defendant bolted from his chair and wrestled a gun away from a deputy.
Another police officer shot and killed the man before anyone else was fatally injured.
That shooting emphasized the need for tighter security and prompted several changes. Among them: shackling defendants to a bolt in the floor, making high-risk defendants wear stun belts that can immediately disable them and making deputies wear "high-security holsters."
But lessons learned from courtroom shootings don't always lead to better security.
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Uniformity at polls may be elusive
Monday, February 28, 2005 CRAIG GILBERT - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| Democrats want all 50 states to let former felons vote. Republicans want all 50 states to require photo IDs from voters. These and several other election reforms now circulating in Congress have two things in common.
One is that they pit the two parties squarely against each other, and thus have little chance of winning bipartisan support.
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Soldier finds a purpose beyond serving his country while in Iraq
Monday, February 28, 2005 GINA BARTON - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| The first time Capt. Scott Southworth visited the orphanage in Baghdad, the little boy was drawn to him immediately.
The boy, who has cerebral palsy and cannot walk, half-crawled, half-dragged himself across the floor until he was seated at Southworth's side, then gazed up at him with a crooked smirk.
"People ask me how I chose him, but I didn't. He chose me," Southworth said.
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Great Lakes circle the drain
Monday, February 28, 2005 DAN EGAN - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| Fear hung thick in the Niagara Falls mist in June 2001, when the governors and premiers of the Great Lakes states and provinces pooled their collective political capital and pledged to do whatever it takes to keep outsiders from draining the world's largest freshwater resource.
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Selling Social Security
Monday, February 21, 2005 KATHERINE M. SKIBA - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| Federal lawmakers will hit the streets this week, either touting the virtues of President Bush's plan for personal retirement accounts or sounding alarms about potential costs, risks and benefit cuts.
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Battles likely as GOP plots its post-Bush course
Sunday, February 20, 2005 CRAIG GILBERT - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| As he lays claim to a history-making political legacy, George W. Bush enjoys broad support from Republican and conservative voters, largely unified behind a politically successful wartime president.
But his efforts to redefine modern conservatism - with a combination of government activism and foreign policy "idealism" - have also prompted griping and dissent within the movement.
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Genes may determine risk for certain heart attacks
Tuesday, February 15, 2005 JOHN FAUBER - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| The left main coronary artery is one of the worst places to have a heart attack, so bad that it's ominously nicknamed "the widow maker."
Now researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin and in Germany have found that heredity may play an important role in widow makers and other hazardous heart blockages.
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Two-bit mistake
Tuesday, February 8, 2005 PAUL GORES - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| To most people, that Wisconsin quarter jingling in our pockets or purses is worth exactly 25 cents.
But to coin collectors, it could be worth $500 or so if there is an extra leaf - or a flaw that looks like a leaf - on the cornstalk pictured on the tail side of the quarter.
The discovery has the coin-collecting world flipping. Rare variations can drive up the price that a coin fetches in the collectors market.
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U.S. snares patient's drug from Canada
Monday, February 7, 2005 JOHN FAUBER - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| For three years, Charles Netzow has kept his cholesterol under control more affordably with drugs mailed to him from a pharmacy in Canada.
But when his latest 90-day supply of Lipitor didn't show up when it was supposed to, the 81-year-old Fox Point resident was concerned.
He became even more upset after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration told him his Lipitor had been confiscated.
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Danger may lurk in wolf ruling
Sunday, February 6, 2005 DAN EGAN - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| Conservation groups were overjoyed last week when a federal judge ruled in their favor that the gray wolf should be put back on the endangered species list in most states, but one of the world's foremost authorities on wolf biology frets that their victory might come back to bite them.
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With worry and pride
Sunday, January 30, 2005 MEG KISSINGER - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| All across America, thousands of parents, baby boomers with no military experience of their own, are watching anxiously as their children head off to war. Most are proud. Some are angry, either at their children for taking on such a potentially dangerous mission or at the military for recruiting their sons and daughters. Nearly all say they are scared. Many just don't get it.
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Making choices, a world away
Saturday, January 29, 2005 NAHAL TOOSI - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| He walked into the room, checked in, left a fingerprint, went behind a cardboard screen, marked a two-page ballot and walked out.
So fast, so easy, so sweet, and yet, so bitter, too.
Jabbar Alwan, 78, was among thousands of Iraqi expatriates around the world who, starting Friday, began voting in Iraq's historic elections. The elections will fill seats in a transitional National Assembly.
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5 charged in GOP tire slashings
Monday, January 24, 2005 DERRICK NUNNALLY - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| Five Kerry-Edwards campaign staffers, including the sons of two prominent Milwaukee Democrats, were charged Monday with the election day tire slashings of 25 get-out-the-vote vehicles rented by Republicans.
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