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The subtle theories: Dole is running because the country is ready for a woman, Ashcroft is bowing out because the 1998 elections rebuked his religious right constituency, and McCain is running because conservatives like his Vietnam heroism and moderates like his positions on tobacco and campaign reform.
USAT 's second lead reports that after a landmark study finding multiple SIDS deaths within families was rebuked in the leading medical journal that originally published it, police in Boston, Chicago and Minneapolis have reopened dozens of SIDS cases.
Although the king had rebuked his brother Crown Prince Hassan on a number of counts in the letter excluding him from the succession, Hassan had accepted that criticism graciously and loyally.
The SCMP also reported Friday that Michael Klosson, the new U.S. consul-general in Hong Kong, was rebuked by China for a speech this week in which he attacked a Chinese proposal to establish a press council in Hong Kong as a threat to media freedom and criticized Beijing's decision to prevent the pope visiting the territory.
When reports about McCain's bad temper first emerged out of Arizona this fall, they indicated that he had muscled, rebuked, punished, and cowed fellow Republicans in order to squelch dissent.