Word: bounds
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...WHAT DOES IT MEAN IF WASHINGTON does become a stage of sectarian conflict after Nov. 7? For one thing, most of Bush's legislative agenda could be bound for gridlock. White House officials still talk hopefully of expanding Bush's No Child Left Behind education legislation. Other issues for which they argue they could get some kind of bipartisan traction include moving toward energy independence, lowering health-care costs and measures to fight terrorism. Bush's advisers even talk of enlisting Democrats for some grand push for entitlement reform, although anything like Bush's disastrous effort to add private accounts...
...weren't sitting in that chair, I'd slap you across the face." BARBARA CUBIN, Republican Representative from Wyoming, to her wheelchair-bound Libertarian challenger, Thomas Rankin, after a debate in which he criticized her for accepting donations from disgraced ex--House majority leader Tom DeLay...
...mature; their characters are marked by their devotion or lack of it, not their horniness. (The writers and directors seem to be saying: No sex, please, we're skittish.) But both kinds of films are puritanical in their take on sex. They're either reluctant to show it, or bound to exact mortal payment...
...thing to do is put out the fire." Still, there is a sense that something is changing in Rome, which for decades has focused all dialogue with other faiths on "finding common ground." Asked at Friday's press conference if the conversation between the Catholic Church and Muslims is bound to get more frank, Monsignor Pier Luigi Celata, secretary of the Vatican's pontifical council for inter-religious dialogue, said: "We have to go forward, with more courage than before. This was necessary...
...leads to a schizophrenic production of an otherwise masterfully crafted work. Why mess with success?Well, partially to make money. New York producers have no qualms about infusing vintage shows with contemporary vigor, so long as the weekly box office figures creep inexorably towards seven-digit territory. A Broadway-bound revival of “Company,” which features an updated book, represents one such hybridization of the mothballed and the modern. Directed by John Doyle—whose recently transformation of Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd” from operatic orgasm to claustrophobic...