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...There has been a fair amount of covert gloating in the liberal community over the congressional Republican flameout. Senator Bill Frist's ridiculous videotape diagnosis of the stricken woman, DeLay's toxic effusions, the President's unseemly dash to Washington to sign the Schiavo legislation all found their just rewards in the polls that revealed an overwhelming public disgust with the political shenanigans. But Democrats would be wise to stow their satisfaction and give careful consideration to what thoughtful conservatives are saying about the role of the judiciary in our public life because the issue is about...
...dividend indefinitely, causing its stock to drop 28% in January, and is expected to close more than a hundred stores. This comes on the heels of Fleming Cos.' liquidation last summer of what had been the second biggest grocery wholesaling business in the country. But even excluding that particular flameout, the industry has lost more than 50% of its market value in the past five years. "The people at Wal-Mart don't want some of the business," Davis seethes in Little Rock, Ark., where his wholesaling cooperative supplies 50 supermarkets and some 600 convenience stores in and around Arkansas...
...that it's too early to pen his corporate obituary. "All you fellows who wrote today that I'm finished may not have it right," he told reporters. Because Hollinger stock surged on the news of his ouster, he boasted he was $50 million richer, declaring "That's a flameout I could get used...
...Perpetual Student Ever since his flameout at Yale, Cheney seems to have been compensating, retaining a fiercely scholarly approach to his work. In his first year at the Pentagon, he organized periodic Saturday-morning tutorials with top Kremlinologists and defense thinkers to bring himself up to speed on what was still the U.S.'s prime nemesis...
...waving bids around without even inspecting the property. And money is flooding into McMansions and vacation homes, reminiscent of the cash that rushed into technology-stock funds that were all the rage a few years back. So the bubble police are on full alert, sensing another NASDAQ-like flameout...