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...weren't sitting in that chair, I'd slap you across the face." BARBARA CUBIN, Republican Representative from Wyoming, to her wheelchair-bound Libertarian challenger, Thomas Rankin, after a debate in which he criticized her for accepting donations from disgraced ex--House majority leader Tom DeLay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Nov. 6, 2006 | 10/29/2006 | See Source »

...Bush administration is counting heavily on the Proliferation Security Initiative to delay Iran's nuclear progress. Washington knows that even if the U.N. Security Council passes some mild sanctions - a travel ban and a ban on trade in nuclear and missile program components - now being debated by the U.S., Europe, Russia and China, Tehran will almost certainly ignore these measures. And even if stiffer economic sanctions were to be adopted, Western diplomats acknowledge that Iran's windfall oil profits would cushion the impact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S.-led Gulf War Game Aims a Message at Tehran | 10/28/2006 | See Source »

...times, his girls to be toughened and, yes, coarsened, by the vulgar realities which nonetheless shaped him. Largely, though, the answers are "medical" ones and they revolve around two factors: first, that it seems a kid who can get straight As in a hard course of college study and 'delay gratification' for the ten years or so of training, can go into business and make a lot more money doing a lot less work than their medical parent does. And second, many docs simply don't want their child to "put up with all the sh-." Its the freedom issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Like Father, Like Daughter? Not if I Can Help It | 10/27/2006 | See Source »

...continue discussion of the Gen Ed recommendations on and off the faculty floor in order to meet this goal, Knowles said. “If we need more meetings we should have them,” Knowles said. “This is too important to let other issues delay...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gen Ed Draft Awaits Grade | 10/27/2006 | See Source »

...DeLay's Gift to the Democrats The controversial former House leader thought he could help the G.O.P. by getting out of this year's race. But his departure has thrown his home district into election chaos -- and very likely into the Democrats' hands

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '06: A Republican in Trouble in Indiana | 10/27/2006 | See Source »

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