Word: finalities
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...final contradiction may lie beneath all the others. Democrats, particularly those involved in health policy, were scarred by President Clinton's failure to achieve reform in 1994. They are determined to avoid a similar debacle. So on every procedural question, they have done the reverse of what he did. (See who's who in Barack Obama's White House...
...state's lack of traction on prison reform, a federal three-judge panel recently ordered California to come up with a plan in the next 45 days that reduces the inmate population by nearly 43,000 prisoners. Seth Unger, press secretary for the CDCR, says they will appeal any final ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court. "Congress passed the Prison Litigation Reform Act to limit the power of the federal courts to take control of state prison systems and to order population caps or early release of inmates and we certainly believe the court has overstepped its bounds in this...
...mouth, supervising his decoration of the Chapel of the Rosary in St.-Paul de Vence because it was what he did, because it kept him alive. That's why Les Paul continued to play weekly gigs at Iridium well into his 90s, until shortly before his death, putting the final touches, grace notes, on the edifice of his achievement. Each Monday evening, two legends would fill that tiny stage: a living legend, Les Paul, and the precious memory of his partner. One night he closed a set with the plaintive ballad "Just One More Chance." He was playing...
...prep has become a style for a broad section of Harvard students, Stilz said. "Anybody from the richest final club president to somebody there on financial aid is typically walking around in khakis," he said. "Prep is kind of blurred into the new Harvard...
...such a confused atmosphere, as people come to realize that choosing between family members means having to choose whether to be Georgian or South Ossetian - in some cases, children find themselves forced to decide between one parent or another. "We repeatedly and clearly explain that this decision is final - now and forever," says Tedeti. "If they change their mind, they cannot come back...