Word: ganges
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...trying to reflect what readers saw on cable TV the day before? Publish local school lunch menus, city-hall doings and, yes, local police and court reports. As for coverage from Baghdad and Kabul, editors can rely on the Associated Press and other news organizations with respected reporters. Gang reporting wastes time and money. Frank Real, Palmer, Mass...
...were almost entirely with regard to highly partisan judicial appointments. For his major initiatives—No Child Left Behind, prescription drugs, tax cuts, the Iraq and Afghan wars, immigration—Bush received significant Democratic support. Democrats struck a deal about judicial appointments through the “gang of 14,” which smoothed the way for the confirmation of a slew of Bush appointments. There were no serious challenges to the appointments of Supreme Court justices Samuel A. Alito and John G. Roberts ’76, in spite of their manifestly conservative philosophies...
...high unemployment gave him a congressional landslide in 1934 that ratified his 1932 victory. That's when he grew strong enough to pass his broader agenda. The best way not to "waste a good crisis" is to put the stress on "crisis." Once Obama does that, the antsy gang on Wall Street and in Washington will have to pay attention...
...bipartisan group of nine U.S. Senators, after meeting for nine months behind closed doors, is nearing an agreement on the broad strokes of a health-care-reform bill. The so-called Gang of Nine - though its number expands and contracts depending on the meeting - is hammering out the finer points as they prepare to enter the drafting phase of the negotiations, sources from three Senate offices involved in the talks told TIME...
...standard law-enforcement methods have failed: Gang members, whose whole life revolves around conflict with the police, value prison as an expected part of the life cycle, and see death as a price to be paid for posthumous respect. [Drug-related] arrests and seizures do not have a lasting impact on them...