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FULLERTON, Calif.—The afternoon was too pleasant, too breezy, to host the finality of defeat...
...Senate is a chamber split in two--two parties, two ideologies and, at times last week, two different centuries. There was majority leader Bill Frist accusing the Democrats of trying "to kill, to defeat, to assassinate" President Bush's judicial nominees, and Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania comparing the Democrats' audacity to Hitler's--a charge so harsh he later had to apologize. To show what he thought of Frist, New Jersey's Frank Lautenberg carted in a poster of actor Ian McDiarmid playing the diabolical Supreme Chancellor Palpatine of Star Wars: Episode III--Revenge of the Sith...
...weapon that earlier generations reserved for only the gravest matters. In the entire 19th century, the filibuster was used only 22 times; now Democrats regularly filibuster dozens of times a year. And until the Democrats started filibustering judges two years ago, the measure was almost never used to defeat a President's judicial nominee. Since then, they have used the filibuster to block 10 of Bush's picks--seven of whom he has renominated, in part to provoke this week's showdown. Democrats say what they are doing is no worse than the Republicans' preferred tactic when Bill Clinton...
...April dual race with Princeton, Harvard was forced to overcome a six-seat deficit off the start to defeat the Tigers. But yesterday, Harvard’s best start of the season left the Crimson even with the field after the race’s first 20 strokes...
...meters, however, the heavyweight final delivered just what it had promised—Harvard versus Princeton, round two. The Tigers, out to avenge last year’s Sprints loss and the boat’s only 2005 dual defeat to the Crimson, trailed Harvard by four to five seats at the midway point...