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...called and emailed the President of the Harvard Democrat Club as well, but I never got a response,” Trager said...
...loser in the election, Althea Garrison (R), claimed just over 2% of the votes. Garrison is a regular candidate on the Boston political scene, known for changing loyalties from Democrat to Independent to Republican and changing sex from male to female...
...sign, and not the only one, that Britain is re-evaluating how its rules fit a changing society. In July, Members of Parliament voted to extend pension benefits to unmarried partners of M.P.s, gay or straight. The policy has not been extended to other government employees yet, but Liberal Democrat M.P. Evan Harris, who sponsored the amendment, is pushing for more change. "The public sector needs to keep up with the lifestyles and financial interdependence of modern couples," he says. "I'm campaigning to make these policies non-discriminatory." ? Not everyone agrees that the Homsi case is a valid example...
...could be - maybe as high as $500 billion in the end. But the Congressional and Senate leaders in this room knew that money gets wasted when it's appropriated in the heat of the moment. "I'm an American first," Rep. David Obey, the Appropriations Committee's senior Democrat, told the others. "I want to turn these attackers into fairy dust. But we need to look at the fine print of what we're doing here...
...Wednesday morning, Sept. 12: Senate Majority Whip Harry Reid walked out of the White House after a meeting between the President and Democratic leaders. He had these thoughts as he strolled to his car to drive back to the Capitol. "The thing that I personally saw was the intensity of the President," Reid, a Democrat, told me. "I've been in a number of meetings with him and he's kind of a hale, hearty, pat-you-on-the-back-nice-man. But here he was a nice man but extremely intense. Obviously he was really in tune with what...