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...every opinion he holds dear. Most politicians agree that ideology alone cannot destroy a nomination - even for the post of the nation's top law enforcement official - but many of his opponents worry that Ashcroft's zealous views could influence his enforcement of existing laws. Needless to say, feverish dirt-digging has commenced in hopes of landing a bit of damaging information...
...brother, Hugh, and I had been, in effect, exiled for the summer, in the care of our teenage Aunt Sally, to a small vacation cottage (no electricity, no running water) on a backcountry farm absentee-owned by a friend of my father's. You went a mile down a dirt road crusted with crushed oyster shells until you came to the cottage. The yard was overgrown with tall grass, and if you weren't careful you might fall into the small, empty cracked-concrete swimming pool. A path led down to Charles Creek, a tributary of Chesapeake Bay. There...
Between The Crimson, Harvard and the local news you would think my grandfather and I would have a lot to talk about. But he was interested in football and golf and I rarely pick up the sports section. Freshman year he kept asking me about this big pile of dirt in the back of Soldier's Field. I never found out what they were building out there--after Harvard-Yale I never even crossed the Anderson Bridge. Beyond my half-hearted attempts to keep up with the football, my grandfather and I never had much to say to each other...
...Ottonian Century" for the dominance of the Holy Roman Empire, but will the Empire maintain its hegemony, or will new challenges arise to its control? Think also of the changes in daily life: Now, just like in all previous societies, most of humanity scratches out a living from small dirt fields in grinding, famine-prone poverty, and vast numbers of children die before age five...
Last week, before the state supreme court's thunderclap ruling, it was difficult if not impossible to find a lawmaker on Capitol Hill who expected Gore to survive. "The coffin was on the ground, and the dirt was being poured on top of it," says a top Senate Democratic aide. Publicly the lawmakers still supported the Vice President, albeit in a mechanical and slightly impatient way. Privately they prepared for life with President Bush...