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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Texas grand jury indicted him on charges of trying to evade the state's election law. So he moved out of his palatial suite in the Capitol, where he once brandished a "No Whining" mug during feisty weekly sessions with reporters, and moved across the street to the Cannon House Office Building, home of many freshmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tom DeLay Tells Why He's Quitting | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

...start with a simple proposition: no one wants Iran to have the Bomb. The country doesn't actually possess nukes yet, but much of the world suspects that it is hell-bent on building them under the cover of its nuclear-energy program--and the loose-cannon bluster of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad only reinforces that conviction. That's why diplomats and nuclear watchdogs in the U.S., Europe and other parts of the world have spent so much time trying to stop Iran's nuclear program in its tracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Iran Get The Bomb? | 3/26/2006 | See Source »

...disliking. Not like you’ll see them anyway—the truth is that if someone lives in a different entryway, let alone a different house, you will have almost no inclination to see them unless you need to borrow Drumline or some equally hilarious Nick Cannon DVD. “I Want to Be Quaded”: The Fallacy According to our “inside” source, an overwhelming number of blocking groups are making the bold claim that they want to live in the Quad. The great paradox of this mentality is that future...

Author: By Christopher J. Catizone and Chris Schonberger, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Your Next Three Years Will Suck | 3/22/2006 | See Source »

...aims to help - want the government to rescind the law's terms. For some, opposition justified violence. At the Sorbonne, a minority of protesters hurled anything they could tear loose - umbrella stanchions, metal barricades, café chairs - at the shields of riot police, who replied with water cannon and tear gas. "The bourgeoisie to the gulag!" read a wall scrawl. Most of last week's demonstrators deplored the violence - but not the passion that underlaid it. Marchers derided throwaway "Kleenex jobs" for the young as the first chink in the armor protecting France's tradition of jobs-for-life. "This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advance and Retreat | 3/19/2006 | See Source »

...hand, and tell us why we should go there with you. And if you don’t, then let’s start again and craft a groundbreaking review of which we can be proud. Otherwise, the HCCR will be a beebee gun bullet shot out of a cannon...

Author: By Rebecca D. O’brien | Title: Save it or Scrap it | 3/10/2006 | See Source »

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