Word: baton
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Senate Democratic leaders were happy to have Obama take the baton, but didn't want the Illinois Senator to indulge in his usual pox-on-both-their-houses political style, whereby he lectures Democrats and Republicans alike for being divided and looks for a bipartisan solution. Democrats wanted to attack the G.O.P. over the excesses of lobbyist and admitted felon Abramoff, a Republican, and get a law passed only on their terms. So Obama tried to split the difference. He showed up at a bipartisan meeting on lobbying reform with Republican Senator John McCain but later sent McCain a letter...
...caretakers in the cells matched our living conditions. Drunken police guards would arrive for their shift and immediately announce their intentions to beat us, daring prisoners to misbehave. Using a baton bat, they would strike suspected miscreants on the soles of their feet, behind their elbows and knees and then chain them—not sitting, not standing—against iron bars so that their battered limbs could not relax through the night. This is one form of violence...
...Haimovitz will perform Friday at 8 p.m. in Sanders Theatre with special guest UCCELLO, an ensemble he formed with three of his cello students at McGill University. Eclecticism defines Haimovitz’s career. He had an early start: at 14 he soloed with the Israel Philharmonic under the baton of Zubin Mehta. Without informing his management or family, he applied to Harvard and was accepted. He began developing a taste for modern music that further alienated him from the classical establishment. He soon married composer Luna Pearl Woolf ’95, whom he met at Harvard. Together, they...
...This week, however, Louisiana's lieutenant governor Mitch Landrieu-a Democrat whose father served two terms as mayor of New Orleans-told supporters privately that he would return home from Baton Rouge to contest Nagin. That's bad news for Nagin because the Landrieus-including both Mitch and his sister, U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu-have built a formidable political dynasty in Orleans Parish since the 1970s when Moon Landrieu served as the city's desegregationist mayor. During the aftermath of Katrina, while the mayor was struggling with the woes inside the Superdome, Mitch was acting like a macho...
...With New Orleans voters spread across the country, of course, reliable polling is next to impossible. But there are some telling trends that don't bode well for Nagin in the election, now set for April 22. Pinsonat, a partner in Southern Media and Opinion Research in Baton Rouge, notes that New Orleans, once 72% black, is now increasingly white-50% to 60% by some estimates. While Nagin's vow to rebuild a "chocolate" city played with the evacuee crowd in Houston and Dallas, it was not well received by middle class whites, especially those in the largely undamaged Uptown...