Word: guts
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...court reversed Roe v. Wade or began striking down environmental laws like the Clean Air Act, national majorities might well become energized and alarmed. Although Justice Clarence Thomas has signaled his willingness to overturn Roe and gut the heart of the regulatory state, Kennedy is unlikely to provide a fifth vote for either. In the partial-birth case, he repeated his longstanding view that although late-term abortions could be restricted, the early-term abortions at the core of Roe had to be protected. And he made clear his support for environmental regulations when he joined the court's four...
...easy to replace them. Meatpacking is a hard job at any salary. There's plenty of new technology in the meatpacking industry, but no machine has yet been invented to take over some of the toughest positions, like the role of gut snatcher, whose sole job is to tug the offal out of each freshly killed hog that comes down the line...
...first glance, President Bush and Pope Benedict XVI offer a portrait in contrast: the swagger of a trust-my-gut Texan and the shyness of a cerebral theologian. But behind the photo-op set at Saturday's first-ever Bush-Benedict meeting were two men with some key traits in common. Both, of course, wield their words and policy with planetary reach thanks to the unique offices they hold. But there are also some notable parallels in the way they have come to exercise their respective global roles. More than six years into Bush's Presidency and two years into...
...inaugural Ivy League Softball Championship to finish out league play with a 16-6 record. Harvard moved on to the NCAA Regional at Hempstead, N.Y. In Hempstead, Harvard lost a 3-2 eight-inning nail-biter against Hofstra before falling in a gut-wrenching 1-0 loss to Albany the next day to conclude its season. The two tournament losses could not overshadow one of the team’s best seasons ever. “We are really satisfied with the season we had,” said captain second baseman Julia Kidder...
...table at the halfway point. Week 6 marked the showdown of two undefeated teams when the Crimson traveled to Princeton, the first time the two squads had played each other with records of 5-0 or better since 1922.It also marked Harvard’s shot at avenging its gut-wrenching 27-24 loss to the Tigers of a year earlier. The end result, however, was a loss far more gut—or chest—wrenching than that of 2005.For it was a seemingly innocent chest bump by senior safety Danny Tanner that swayed the momentum in Princeton?...