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Tensions have been palpable on Capitol Hill since Bush’s two recent recess appointments of circuit-court judges. Democrats were further outraged when the president refused to appoint more than a dozen Democrats to government boards and commissions, inspiring Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., to threaten the administration with an unequivocal stall of all judicial nominations. “There has to be a reciprocal treatment of nominees,” Daschle said in a March statement. “It will be very, very difficult for us to move forward on nominations...
...9/11 "nesting" trend, the small home channel has grown into a Top 15 cable network, and now has company including DIY, Fine Living and Discovery Home. A slew of new home shows are reflecting how the house has changed from nest to nest egg, focusing not on how to appoint the perfect family room but how to buy low and sell high in a heated real estate market...
...patients' medical records so they could be used to defend the new partial-birth abortion law from a suit filed by a group of doctors. Still, for pro-choice groups, the logical next step is a big one: to mobilize their members behind John Kerry, who, if elected, would appoint Supreme Court Justices committed to upholding Roe v. Wade...
...Modern Africa, 1852-1994,” is optimistic about Harvard’s new willingness to embrace Africa, embodied in the University’s addition of African Studies to the Department of African-American Studies and the granting to the Committee of African Studies the right to appoint faculty...
Gross is expected to appoint a deputy dean this semester to assist in administrative affairs of the College, a move which he says will free up his plate for more direct interaction with students and faculty members...