Word: conventioners
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A lawyer and veteran of hothouse politics, Texas style, Strauss has a way, as he puts it, of "getting things done and making things happen." To some that means "influence peddling." To others Strauss has become, at 69, Washington's pre-eminent cutter of Gordian knots. And if a deadlock...
Current American law generally gives control over most kinds of property to its owner -- an auto manufacturer, for instance, cannot tell buyers what to do with their cars. Yet every instinct says that art is no ordinary property. The proposals before Congress place it in a separate category by turning...
Mallon attempts to relieve the tedium of his stereotypical plot by creating exaggerated characters who often seem more ridiculous than humorous. Mallon's penchant for defying convention, if even in the most conventional of ways, is evident in his intentional mangling of the names of Harvard buildings. Sever Hall is...
The Democrats have yet to allocate 2524 of their national convention delegates, and another 258.65 delegates list themselves as uncommitted. Thus the available pool of delegates to be won between now and early June would be 2782.65.
Gephardt, who had 143 delegates after Super Tuesday, is hoping to hang on with a strong showing in the Michigan caucuses on March 26 and the congressional Democratic caucuses on April 19 and 20. Gephardt is planning on winning big when his House colleagues pick 210 of their own to...