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...Hire a velvet hammer. G.O.P. officials said the return of White House counsel Fred Fielding to the job he held in the Reagan Administration signaled to Capitol Hill that the Administration would not simply stonewall in the face of subpoenas and investigations. Fielding will take a tough stance in some negotiations and be flexible in others. "He's highly partisan but highly regarded," an official said...
...Politically, however, it's hard to argue with a winning strategy. The ACLU's three races fly in the face of Harry Reid's victorious approach throughout the 109th Congress: hammer the President in every public forum on Iraq and executive overreach, but never, ever get on the wrong side of tough national security policies. Echoing the dominant centrist approach, California's Dianne Feinstein, who sits on both the intelligence and judiciary committees, told me yesterday she thinks "it is right to give the government reasonable leeway to protect Americans," while "having hearings and oversight is also helpful in clearing...
...house. I didn’t know her well at the time. There was a hole in the wall, so she thought there was some sort of feature hidden beneath the walls,” Burger says. “So she handed me this gigantic mallet, a sledge hammer, so I knocked down the wall. Sure enough there was feature behind there...
...attempt to persuade Somalis to disarm voluntarily in a three-day weapons amnesty appeared stillborn, when not a single weapon was handed in at collection points around Mogadishu. By evening, Aidid indicated the government realized it had been over-ambitious, saying it had called an emergency meeting Wednesday to hammer out a new disarmament plan and adding that the government would now be happy with a three-month process. Asked why this new try to establish a national government in Somalia would succeed when so many previous attempts had failed, Aidid replied: "This is a great chance...
...gong, called Kepler, is now broken but produced sound when a hammer hit its metal disc. The third instrument—dubbed Galieo—is a metal sheet that makes a loud, thunderous noise, sometimes irking commuters, when the handle is moved...