Word: connorism
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...It’s nice to be done although I still have two finals and a paper to write,” said Gregory J. Gagnon ’06, who is planning on starting a career as an artist making video installations. Cailin O’Connor ’05, however, had finished all her work and related the joy of turning in her final assignment. “I turned in my last paper and without even thinking about it a smile was on my face,” she said. “I literally skipped...
...wasn't pretty for Democrats. After three days of testimony, Judge Samuel Alito appears headed for confirmation to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court, and already political operatives on the Hill have turned to damage control and exploitation. Around the hearing room in the Hart Office Building on Capitol Hill, Republicans are patting themselves on the back for their successful defense of the nominee, and are talking cheerfully of their expected victory on the Senate floor later this month. Democrats are licking their self-inflicted wounds, trying to figure out if they can somehow turn the timing...
...voice was tense but controlled. "I am deeply honored to appear before you," Alito said, "I am deeply honored to have been nominated for a position on the Supreme Court. And I am humbled to have been nominated for the seat that is now held by Justice O'Connor." Alito was appearing stiff and cold as predicted. A lame joke about how he got to where he is didn't help...
...fewer votes?in the committee and later in the Senate?than did Roberts, whose golden rsum and limited paper trail thwarted Democrats' putative attack plans. Party leaders say they are determined not to give Bush's new nominee as easy a time. Alito would replace Sandra Day O'Connor, whose views have often decided key issues like affirmative action, late-term abortion and death-penalty cases in ways that Democrats have supported. They fear Alito...
...lead multiple times as they battled it out.The Crimson started the meet with a bold statement, however, as it edged out Rutgers in the first event, the 200-yard medley relay, by .02 seconds with a team of sophomore Jackie Pangilinan and sophomores Lindsay Hart, Bridget O’Connor, and Amanda Slaight.“After we won the first relay that was a really big confidence booster,” Pangilnan said. “Being able to beat them [in] the first race, that gave us the motivation to think we can do this...