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...political operatives on the Hill have turned to damage control and exploitation. Around the hearing room in the Hart Office Building on Capitol Hill, Republicans are patting themselves on the back for their successful defense of the nominee, and are talking cheerfully of their expected victory on the Senate floor later this month. Democrats are licking their self-inflicted wounds, trying to figure out if they can somehow turn the timing of that vote to their advantage. "We don't have a lot of options," says one leadership aide...
...Senator Joe Biden of Delaware was frustrated enough in an appearance on the Today show Thursday to suggest scrapping hearings altogether. "The system's kind of broken," Biden said. By the time three witnesses from the American Bar Association took the floor to explain why they had given Alito the ABA's highest possible rating, Democrats could already see the writing on the wall. The final blow came when a panel of seven current and former judges from the Philadelphia-based Third Circuit Court of Appeals lined up to praise their colleague on the bench. Vermont's Senator Patrick Leahy...
...Democrats are expected to ask for a delay in the Judiciary Committee's vote on the nomination, scheduled for next week, putting off a full floor debate in the Senate until the week of January 23rd. That will give advocacy groups time to target Alito with ads. It will also put the confirmation vote closer to President Bush's State of the Union address Jan. 31, something Democrats would have preferred to avoid. The best the Democrats can say about the hearings now is that they're glad so few Americans were paying attention...
...confidence” in whether FAS would be able to pay for a $100 million deficit.“It’s very exhilarating to ski downhill, but one wants to be assured that the chairlift works,” Engell said.Before King, Hoxby, and Campbell took the floor to discuss finances, FAS Diversity Advisor Lisa L. Martin issued a report on her efforts this semester. She outlined her hope to accommodate female junior professors, noting a study that found that 45 percent of tenured women at American universities do not have children.Kirby also dipped into his trove...
...Heller says.But according to one student, the Break-Outs don’t help with the sleepiness experienced in lecture itself.“I was in Life Sciences 1a one day, sitting in the last row as usual, and I look behind me, and sprawled out on the floor are kids! And what are they doing? They’re sleeping,” says the student, who asked to remain anonymous because the final exam and final grades in the course have not yet been given. “I wish I had the courage they...