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...happier with what happens next if the nuclear option passes. Filibustering is not the only tool the minority has to slow business to a crawl. The Senate last week got a taste of how harsh nuclear winter might be when Democrats invoked an obscure procedural rule to cancel all committee meetings, where the bulk of Senate business gets done. They have also threatened to require full Senate votes for even the most mundane business, a move that could put the brakes on the G.O.P. agenda. Democrats warn they will turn to another little-used rule to circumvent committees entirely...
...breast cancer; in Melbourne. A former teen star of the Australian soap opera Neighbours, Minogue became one of the biggest-selling pop sensations in the world with hits like 2001's Can't Get You Out of My Head. Scheduled to begin therapy this week, Minogue announced she would cancel her coming Showgirl concert tour of Australia and Asia, saying, "I ... am sorry to have to disappoint my fans...
Yesterday’s press release revoked the Nieman Foundation’s sponsorship of the program, but did not definitively cancel the workshop, only saying that it “may continue under other Harvard sponsorship...
Putting the finishing touches on his next work, Doctorow regretted the timing troubles. “I don’t usually cancel speaking engagements,” he said. “I’ve just been working with proofing galleys, and writing commitments backed...
...Kremlin could even agree to hold a high-level get-acquainted meeting; Secretary of State Alexander Haig received Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in New York in September 1981. Despite earlier reservations, Reagan took a first step toward arms control in November, unveiling his zero-option proposal to cancel the planned U.S. deployment of Pershing and cruise missiles in Europe if the Soviet Union would dismantle its existing SS-20 missiles aimed at European targets. The offer was rejected, but talks on limiting such intermediate nuclear forces (INF) began the same month in Geneva. That December the Soviet-dominated government...