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Students at LSU dealt with different choices: how to stay safe with strangers on campus, how to get to class with skyrocketing gas prices, how to find parking in an overstressed campus, how to take a number of new students enrolling from schools like Tulane and Loyola—a number that had reached 1,400 by Friday afternoon...
...quickly shifted to Washington. There, egged on by Chevron's lobbyists, Congress raised a series of objections to the deal, particularly noting supposed security risks for the U.S. in a CNOOC-Unocal marriage. Most energy experts believe that the risks either didn't exist, or could easily have been dealt with. "There are no security issues?none," oil consultant Philip Verleger said earlier this summer. It was the congressional opposition that CNOOC's advisors?all American, all very experienced, and all very well paid?didn't expect, and it came with a ferocity that took everyone by surprise. In late...
...events room. Our Red Sox, by contrast, lured a mixed crowd of perhaps twenty on a thick night that promised thunderstorms (the author said by way of explanation). Zack made a gracious introduction, I read a few bits, and then we entered into question-and-answer. We mercifully dealt with Foulke in under five minutes, and then moved on to more substantial things: ?How do you get all those tickets?? ?Down where you live, do the Yankees take us as seriously as we take them...
...then there are the times when California politics are so slimy that you just have to laugh. Take for example a fish and game bill that was “gutted” so severely that not even the scales were left. The new version dealt solely with human marriage, bypassing the legislative committees that might have normally impeded its lawful passage...
...badly needed Douglass. It would be a virtually impossible task without him, and without blacks on Lincoln's side, he could scarcely win the war and preserve the Union. Many of his generals felt that "the emancipation policy, and the use of colored troops, constitute the heaviest blow yet dealt to the rebellion," Lincoln noted...