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While the LAT labels Vladimir Putin's visit to Chechnya a presidential "campaign-style tour" and the NYT calls it "unexpected," the Post relates that the new president had planned the trip months ago, long before Boris Yeltsin decided to step down (this important detail probably pushed the story off the Post 's front page).
Two years later, after the massacres at Srebrenica and Vukovar, the slaughter and displacement of tens of thousands more Croats and Muslims, the decimation of Sarajevo, and the Serb conquest of more territory, the administration pushed through the Dayton Accords.
White House spokesman Mike McCurry said that 1) "it's not a disease, it is something that is part of defining one's sexuality"; 2) Lott's remarks show that Republican leaders in Congress are "backward"; and 3) the Christian right has pushed these leaders to "the extreme."
The 22,000 MWe difference, between the number of FGDs which would be cost effective to build and the estimated number based on resources, would be pushed back a few years to be completed by 2010.
"He was one of the dirtiest players I ever played against," Marin told the Post . "He held and pushed and tugged.