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...before the document's release. For example, the overview, released last night, immediately conjures the proverbial elephant in the room. Take this: "Many families face energy bills two to three times higher than they were a year ago... some employers must lay off workers or curtail production to absorb the rising cost of energy. Drivers across America are paying higher and higher gasoline prices...
Ashcroft is right to grant the survivors anything they think will help them through the night. But there's a question whether this execution will be a last milestone in their hellish journey or yet another trauma to absorb. Will public witness deliver a moment of catharsis, restore a measure of equilibrium to a shattered universe? Or is it one last way for McVeigh to victimize them? Many of the survivors obviously hope for a closure that has so far eluded them, for a miraculous lifting of their grief. But they have their expectations in check. "In the early stages...
...Jessy-friends. She was 11 when I first met her at her parents' home in Williamstown, Mass. Hunched over a cardboard carton filled with tiny squares of paper, she would grab handfuls of paper bits and let them sift down through her fingers--a repetitive activity that could absorb her for half an hour at a stretch...
...textbook wouldn’t: a “how-it-really-works” look at the Supreme Court. Rehnquist describes how cases are chosen, how they are argued,and how decisions are made. As in the first chapter, Rehnquist offers more details than the reader can possibly absorb. For example, conferences to discuss the cases take place on Wednesday afternoon and Friday conferences begin at 9:30 a.m. for most of the year. The chief justice and senior associate justice sit at opposite ends of a rectangular conference table, and thus have unrestricted elbow room. Rehnquist also adds...
Over the next two years, Harvard's tuition will most likely increase and, in effect, absorb the extra $340,800 added to Harvard's coffers with Pell Grant money, Donahue said...