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...Democrats, attempting to send a message of courage to their Senate brethren, did everything they could to fight back. Centrist "Blue Dog" Democrats clogged up the process as best they could with procedural snags, protesting that all they wanted was to look at the budget as a whole. Liberals sounded the usual alarms about "the failed policies of the past" and offered an alternative version, which went down in a lightly attended vote in the late afternoon. And afterward, they complained that they'd been ignored...
Once Pluto, king of all the netherworld, got some respect among astronomers. In 1930, he joined his brethren as the namesake for the farthest planet in our solar system. But among some astronomical ingrates, Pluto has recently fallen out of favor. Two years ago Pluto was almost reduced to a mere "minor planet" by the International Astronomers Union, and last February New York's Rose Center for Earth and Space left Pluto off the list entirely, relegating him instead to a disk of icy comets known as the Kuiper Belt. One year later, passions still rage in the astronomical community...
...ready to join with my quilled brethren, but it turns out the Guild is for film and TV writers, whose jobs are slightly different from mine in that they make $2 million a script. Still, their demands touched a part of me, the part of me that's greedy and egocentric, so really more "the vast majority of me" than "a part...
...Sweden (over 250 miles) after blowing up a Nazi heavy water facility that was a key component in Hitler's attempt to manufacture an atomic bomb. More than a few sports have some type of military component (e.g., the marathon), but the vision of my Nordic brethren frustrating totalitarian invaders using superior tactics, marksmanship and skill on skis completed the intoxicating vision. By late 1999 there was no doubt: Biathlon was gonna be the sport...
...people could vote for electors, who would travel, ostensibly on the voters' behalf, to cast their votes for the chosen candidate. It also was set up - for the same reason that each state has two U.S. senators - to ensure that large states didn't ride roughshod over their smaller brethren...