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Many women are still miffed by Specter's harsh questioning of Anita Hill during Clarence Thomas's confirmation hearings. They should look at his sponsorship of the Freedom of Choice Act and of the Cervical and Breast Cancer Mortality Prevention Act of 1990, and then think of the Jekyll & Hyde public/private life of Ted Kennedy. Specter, defiantly pro-choice, has even received support from NARAL president Kate Michelman...
...nonpolice job in the law library. But in the end, her persistence was rewarded. Although she was unaware of it, an agreement to call in the U.S. Attorney's office and the FBI had been violated. In August, after Librarian of Congress James J. Billington received a harsh letter from Mack, he initiated an in-house investigation, acknowledging that there may have been security lapses at the country's largest and most valuable collection of books and documents. He also suspended the termination proceedings against Maceda. And last Friday, he announced a reorganization among the library's key administrators, including...
Amid scattered flurries of harsh rhetoric and pre-campaign posturing, the Senate spent the week hammering out the details of a sweeping overhaul of the nation's welfare system and stood poised to pass the bill this coming week. The historic measure would convert existing entitlement programs into capped block grants to the states with virtually no strings attached. The legislation, which its authors hope will save $70 billion over seven years, also contains a five-year limit on benefits, as well as work requirements. Democrats and moderate Republicans succeeded in increasing child-care funding and stripping provisions that would...
...equipment smashed all around him. When he looked up, everything was cockeyed. Directly above him was the broken window the tyrannosaur had smashed. Rain dripped through onto Malcolm's face. Lightning flashed, and then he saw a big head peering down at him and snarling. He heard the harsh scratching of the tyrannosaurs' claws on the metal side of the trailer, then the face disappeared. A moment later, he heard them bellowing as they pushed the trailer through the dirt...
...vendors have to be willing to endure the cold weather, and the often harsh comments launched at them by passers...