Word: hammerism
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...call all the other planetlike objects that have lately been discovered orbiting around our sun, tiny worlds with names like Sedna, Quaoar and 2004 DW? Part of the problem is that there is no precise scientific definition of the word planet. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) is trying to hammer one out, but the decision is proving more difficult than anyone thought. An apparent consensus, reached just weeks ago, seems to have fallen apart. "The current state," admits Brian Marsden, director of the IAU's Minor Planet Center at Harvard, "is rather confusing...
...name; writer Dan Futterman, making his screenwriting debut, is better known for his roles in “The Birdcage” or on TV’s “Judging Amy”) there are a few missteps from the new guys. Viewers are pounded with occasional hammer-to-the-head moments, making sure that we clearly see the light bulb lighting up over Capote’s head, or how murderer Perry Smith’s first presence will impact Capote forever.Further, the two criminals, Smith (played by Clifton Collins Jr.) and Dick Hickock (Mark Pellegrino) aren?...
...comes as a relief. She had been widely expected to win the election outright until the final days before the vote, and the the final result, which gave her party just a four-seat margin over Schroeder's Social Democrats, came as a severe disappointment. Having to hammer out an agreement with the Social Democrats means that she will have to water down some of her more ambitious free-market-oriented policies. Still, the chancellorship is a major accomplishment for the daughter of a Lutheran pastor raised in East Germany. She had studied physics and taken a teaching post, only...
...Back in Washington, Bush still faces a number of problems. Congressional staffers will start working this week to hammer out an agreement on a controversial defense-spending bill that passed last week. The Senate version includes a provision, adamantly opposed by the White House, that limits how the military can interrogate prisoners captured in the war on terror. The House version didn't include that provision, and lawmakers there don't want to send Bush a bill he has promised to veto. But senators, particularly Arizona's John McCain, have been insistent on the provision staying the bill, setting...
...call Tate. Bennett told TIME that the Miller camp had received an indication from a third party that it might be a good time to approach Libby with a new request to personally waive the confidentiality agreement. It took Miller's lawyers a month, till Sept. 29, to hammer out the details with Libby and Fitzgerald. A legal source told TIME that Fitzgerald gave both camps a letter saying that if Miller and Libby were to have a talk about making a deal, the prosecutor wouldn't view the conversation as collusive or obstructive as long as they didn...