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BONITA SPRINGS: Ten Hispanic employees of Rhodes Restaurant were fired for attending The Great March instead of going to work.

Francisco Salsar, one of the former Rhodes employees, went to work on Tuesday only to find that he had lost his job.

The restaurant's owner, Charley Bohley, admitted that they are seriously short-staffed but said he had no choice.

Bohley said he passed out a...
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Texas arresting people in bars for being drunk...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Texas has begun sending undercover agents into bars to arrest drinkers for being drunk, a spokeswoman for the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission said on Wednesday.

The first sting operation was conducted recently in a Dallas suburb where agents infiltrated 36 bars and arrested 30 people for public intoxication, said the commissions Carolyn Beck....
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The man in charge of Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day parade has fueled a controversy by saying allowing a gay group to join Friday's march would be like permitting neo-Nazis to participate in an Israeli parade.

In an interview with The Irish Times, parade committee chairman John Dunleavy defended the organizers' decision to bar the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization from participating...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush said on Saturday he was disappointed and saddened by the arrest on felony theft charges of Claude Allen, his former top domestic policy adviser.

"If the allegations are true, something went wrong in Claude Allen's life. And that is really sad," Bush told reporters.

Allen, who stepped down last month, was arrested in Maryland on Thursday on...
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Burlingame, Calif. -
Google didn't spend all its time Thursday getting roughed up by investors over its click-fraud settlement. The company also added a word processor to its ever-growing arsenal of products, a move that takes its Web-based vision of the future and sticks it right in Microsoft boss Bill Gates' craw.

The company announced, via its blog, that it had acquired Upstartle, the company...
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 - One day after Iran moved to break the internationally monitored seals on its nuclear facilities, a contest of wills between Iran and its adversaries unfolded, with the Europeans threatening to refer Iran to the United Nations Security Council for possible punitive actions and Iran issuing defiant new warnings.

Signaling this strategy, Vice President Dick Cheney, in an interview with Fox News,...
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The Bush Administration on Tuesday said Iran, by resuming uranium enrichment at its plant in Natanz, risked a serious escalation in its nuclear standoff with the West.

White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the Bush Administration was consulting with its allies about how to move forward. Any resumption of enrichment and reprocessing activities would be a further violation of the Paris agreement that Iran agreed...
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Jan. 11 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito's refusal to disavow his 1985 view that there is no constitutional right to abortion was attacked by Democrats as the Senate Judiciary Committee resumed his confirmation hearings.

Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, the Senate's No. 2 Democrat, told Alito his testimony ``left in question the future'' of the high court's 1973 decision in Roe v....
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Lobbying is the practice of private advocacy with the goal of influencing a governing body, in order to ensure that an individual's or organization's point of view is represented in the government. A lobbyist is a person who is paid to influence legislation as well as public opinion. A more tactful description might be said to be someone who is engaged in public affairs.

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