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...this context, it is even more sad that the Republican Congress is still dragging its feet on meaningful legislation that would make a real difference in the way that our government is administering youth services in America. They still have a chance, however, in the approaching lame-duck congressional session--only the ninth such session convened this century--to make constructive progress on this issue. Now is the not the time to squander the opportunity or the hard work that has gone into moving toward a positive solution...
...Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, the presidential and vice-presidential nominees of what was then called the Republican Party (which later became the Democratic Party), ended up in an Electoral College tie, with 73 votes each. The choice devolved on the lame-duck House of Representatives, with each state's delegation voting as a unit...
...chatting it up with Sarah Ryan and Jennie Tarr. Now don't get your panties in a bunch, Sarah and Jennie fans, I'm not going to wail on them. In fact, I think the girls are rather astute for figuring out that if Ben was lame enough to be at the Grille on a Saturday night (doesn't he have a premiere to go to?), he'd certainly be up for some chit-chat with a couple of cute Harvard undergrads...
...office. But with Barak - his grip on power hanging by a thread - feeling pressure from his generals to be allowed to act with fewer restraints and Arafat's political authority now routinely flouted even in the ranks of his own Fatah organization, neither man appears particularly keen on a lame-duck Camp David reunion...
Granted, the NFL has got pretty lame. But Vince! No fair catches? No touchbacks? That's it? That's what all the fuss is about? We, as a television audience, have been weaned on Grand Guignol reality programming--standard fare like World's Grimmest Third World Postcolonial Descents into Anarchy videos. We're talking about entire families whiling the night away on the couch, munching toffee popcorn, watching kidney transplants and sex-change operations. You want to give us more bang for the buck (i.e., more violence), you're gonna have to do a lot better. How do you decrease...