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...That'll pass. Already, the fights are starting. Republicans griped, with no hint of irony, that Pelosi's use of strict rules to bring bills straight to the floor for vote was unfair, though the G.O.P. aggressively used the same tactic when they held control. And while Pelosi will have little difficulty moving bills out of the House in the first hundred hours of her speakership, thanks to the majority-friendly rules of the institution, things will be decidedly slower on the other side of the building. Pelosi's Senate counterpart, Majority Leader Harry Reid, is facing challenges...
...then in 2006, there was an unmistakable pause, a moment of self-examination, even the hint of a great humbling. The most absolutist visionaries found a limit to their certitude. Benedict XVI went in a matter of months from proclaiming an irreducible gulf between Christianity and Islam to visiting a mosque in Turkey with white slippers on his feet. He publicly called for Turkey, a secular state but a Muslim country, to be integrated into the European Union. In the U.S., the religious right saw its most enthusiastic repre sentative in the Senate, Rick Santorum, go down to defeat...
...year. And your thesis? It will get done. For all of our sakes, let’s declare a moratorium on freakouts for the next few months; they’re unpleasant, and they’re contagious. No one is going to be homeless on June 8th, 2007 (hint: the job is called summer school proctor). Everyone else, I don’t know what you’re so relaxed about. You’ve only got a couple more years! Don’t waste another minute! Get up off the couch right now! Study hard, party...
It’s not that I’m enamored with the local topography; far from it. After four academic years, I’d probably be hard-pressed to locate any streets beyond Mass. Avenue, Mount Auburn, Plympton, and JFK (hint: There is an eponymous school of government sitting...
...series and want to get a hint of the density of lives rushing past, see the first two episodes (they're just 40 and 52 mins., respectively), then 28 Up and 49 Up. Here's a bit of what you'll find...