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...farm programs were revamped. Reformers countered with polls showing support for strict payment limits in those districts, and an analysis showing that most of those districts would receive more money under Kind-Flake through conservation payments. But as a Pelosi aide told them, it didn't matter whether the danger was real; it only mattered that freshmen Democrats believed it. The aggies flew in hundreds of farmers to lobby for the status quo, and several "Blue Dog" Democrats agreed to support Pelosi's efforts to fund children's health insurance with tobacco taxes only if she supported the status...
...minute to realize we were talking past each other. He thought the work was so challenging to ordinary notions of what's pleasing to the eye "that a museum is brave to have this thing." I thought it was so flat-out gorgeous that he was in danger of being accused of making something "simply" beautiful...
...little leverage with the legislature, where the GOP's representation was so small it was less a minority than a cult. What's more, the senate and the house had very different ideas of what they wanted to do. As the two chambers squabbled, the Medicaid money was in danger of slipping away...
...tiny apartment; in all essentials I was Laurie Colwin. My reading inspired me to forsake my nutritional but meatless diet for one that involved filet mignon and red wine on payday and a strict diet of ramen for the second half of every week. This is the danger and the beauty of food writing. It influences your daily life by changing your own relationship to food—and it can become addictive itself. Prompted by the release of “Ratatouille,” I attempted to expand my interest from books to movies. Unfortunately, American cinema...
...govern as head of the military. While such a move would keep Musharraf in charge, it would effectively derail plans to create a more popular, civilian-based government in Pakistan to fight extremism. And so acute has opposition to Musharraf's rule become that declaring martial law raises the danger that the combination of the tribal insurgency and related militancy in the cities, as well as anti-Musharraf agitation by the middle class (such as the recent lawyers' protests that forced Musharraf to back down from firing chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry), will become a perfect storm of opposition that could...