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...course the delay may be of some help to Joseph Kabila, since it'll give him time to bone up on his French in order to be able to address the nation whose presidency he's about to assume. Having been raised in Uganda speaking English and Swahili, Joseph Kabila is essentially a foreigner in a country where the national language is French and the most common indigenous tongue is Lingala. And that may be appropriate, since his power base is entirely foreign, too - the thousands of Zimbabwean and Angolan troops that took over the capital during the funeral...
...nomination, Ashcroft's Democratic opponents hope to riddle the candidate with as many ideological bullets as possible, and perhaps convince their peers to back an Edward Kennedy-sponsored filibuster. Sure, a filibuster probably wouldn't work - and is frowned upon anyway by minority leader Tom Daschle - but any delay at all provides Ashcroft's adversaries with time to build up their arsenal, which, while probably incapable of bringing down Ashcroft's nomination, could serve another, longer-term purpose: By lodging deeply in vulnerable congressional Republicans, the Dems' ammunition may poison GOP reelection efforts - and even shift the balance of power...
...like pennies from heaven for congressional Democrats, most of whom harbor no illusions about actually defeating the nomination. They just want more time to broadcast their opposition, which they hope will compromise the reputation of Ashcroft's supporters. "Ashcroft's opponents [mostly liberal Democrats] are delighted by the delay," says Waller, "which has given grassroots activists more time to work," and spread the negative spin on the nominee...
...method of delay is simple: Ashcroft, says Leahy, is to provide written answers to more than 150 written questions. (Senator Hatch is on the record calling at least some of the questions "too personal" in nature; given the sheer number, one can only imagine the minutiae into which many of the queries must delve...
...they did--two in one game--was out of the norm." The turning point came in the final seconds of the first period, as Princeton was tagged with two penalties within one minute of each other. With winger Tommy Colclough already serving time for slashing, Stathos added another for delay of game. Weakened and frustrated by a Crimson onslaught, Stathos blatantly knocked the net off its moorings at 19:49. "It was a bad first period, and it didn't seem like anything was going to go our way," Kolarik said. "We just told ourselves we weren't going...