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...right but that other people were wrong also,” said Frank.He turned to the Supreme Court, accusing President Bush of “blinking and winking and nodding” when it came to the appointment of a Hispanic, but never following through. After the President nominated Harriet Miers, Frank said, “it’s hard to argue that no Hispanic made the high bar.”On the issue of abortion, Frank said he would vote against confirming Bush Court nominee Samuel Alito, because he predicted the nominee would try to overturn...
...exercise in geometry and light by London-based Plasma Studio's Eva Castro and Holger Kehne on the fourth. Other designs include Teresa Sapey's colorful parking garage, Christian Liaigre's Latin-inspired restaurant, Marc Newson's glass-enclosed cocktail bar and an oasis-like garden by Harriet Bourne and Jonathan Bell...
...BIRTHDAY CELEBRATED. By HARRIET, 175, a giant Gal?pagos tortoise and the world's oldest known animal; in Canberra, Australia. While there is some dispute over Harriet's exact age and the claim that she was brought from the Gal?pagos Islands by Charles Darwin, DNA evidence suggests that she was born before the famed naturalist's 1835 expedition, which would make her at least 170. Harriet, who for more than a century was believed to be a male and went by the name Harry, marked the occasion with a snack of pink hibiscus flowers...
...once viewed as training wheels for a President who was a novice on the world stage, was becoming less essential. He disappeared to a new weekend place in Maryland, and friends fretted about his weight. Katrina hit, and he tarried at his home in Wyoming, checking in by videoconference. Harriet Miers was picked for the Supreme Court, and he found out secondhand. On Capitol Hill last week, the Republican Party was coping with an impasse over spending cuts and the fallout from an embarrassing loss in the Virginia Governor's race, and he was in South Dakota for a week...
...difference from after the Miers nomination was like being at a morgue versus being at a combination of a wedding reception, Super Bowl party and bar mitzvah." JORDAN LAWRENCE, member of the Christian conservative Alliance Defense Fund, on Bush tapping Judge Samuel Alito?four days after Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination?to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court...