Word: confirmation
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...Republican senators voted to confirm Roberts, as did 22 Democrats and the Senate’s one independent. The remaining 22 senators, all Democrats, voted against his confirmation...
...gets from Pyongyang, is how the author feels changed by the visit or how he reflects upon his own culture in the context of North Korea. Even so, while this smart and funny book may not dispel the West's fears and prejudices about North Korea, and may even confirm many of them, it will at least give its readers something a little more real than the Mongo-like vision perpetuated by politicians...
...advantage to the Soldiers Field building is that it is owned by Harvard, unlike some of the other sites under consideration, Buffington said. In July, the Boston Globe reported that the University bought the building from Citizens Bank for roughly $22 million. University spokeswoman Lauren Marshall would not confirm the figure this week...
...European Constitution on May 29. While that current still hasn't coalesced under a strong leader and may never do so, the fact that the German far-left garnered almost 10 percent of the vote has to worry French Socialist party leader Francois¸ Hollande. That would seem to confirm that the mainstream socialists cannot win when there's a strong current to the far left...
What I know not, as I shuttle between Robinson and Sever Halls, is whether our brilliant physics and math concentrators are as outlandish as reputed. My acquaintances do not confirm the rule, leading to the suspicion that the true aliens are all at MITbut before I graduate, I will be sure to shop as many advanced theoretical math lectures as possible in order to confirm that hypothesis. At the very least, I hope to finally experience a shopping week that will make me feel better about the stylishness of my concentration instead of irremediably worse...