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...While the field concerns may have been legitimate, the Red Sox certainly could have employed a more responsible and transparent decision-making process in their treatment of the situation to avoid the flip-flop, along with the confusion and hard feelings that it caused...
...this latest piece of legislation, which arose during the heat of the primary campaign and may surface again later this month, McCain sided with Bush in opposing a further restriction of CIA techniques. Despite the claims of some partisans, McCain's decision was not a flip-flop, but rather the continuation of a position he took in 2005 when he first championed a bill to restrict the Bush Administration's ability to mistreat detainees...
...improved safety measures. In the past, as gymnast Patterson recalls, the "horse" used for vaulting was much smaller and narrower, making certain maneuvers especially hazardous. "The horse used to be long and skinny, with only a limited space to put your hands. When you are doing a flip-flop onto it, you basically have to go to the right spot every single time, and that was a little scary. A lot of times, I would see people's hands slipping off, or missing the horse completely." The horse has since been remade longer and wider, to increase safety...
Many of Trinity's members live on Chicago?s South Side, a vast swath of land that includes the city's convention center, multi-million-dollar mansions in neighborhoods like Kenwood, where Obama lives, as well as boarded-up flop-houses in neighborhoods like Englewood. Among Trinity's members are doctors, architects, prominent journalists, as well as teachers, firemen and garbage collectors. Many residents of the South Side?s farthest edges travel to jobs two hours away via public transport: a bus and a train transfer, often through Hyde Park, the leafy, upscale neighborhood best known because of its proximity...
...Senator John S. McCain has clinched the Republican nomination, he must overcome an identity crisis. Should he change his history of bipartisan voting to strengthen his Republican kinship ties? Or will his attempts to woo the right-wingers of his party alienate Independents? McCain’s recent flip-flop on torture suggests that he is trying to attract the right-wing Republican vote. That seems to explain why McCain, one of the nation’s staunchest opponents of torture, voted not to pass an anti-torture bill.This came as a surprise for those who know of McCain?...