Word: langevin
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...budget and the complex government machinery that goes with it. Characteristically, he reached out to the same senior coterie of professional Tory advisers that helped smooth out the kinks in his campaign. The five-person transition team, which has met every day in the fourth-floor office of the Langevin Block, where Canada's Prime Ministers have their office, is headed by Derek Burney, former chief of staff to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and a former Canadian ambassador to the U.S. The team's members, all volunteers, are arranging high-level briefings for the new PM with key organizations like...
...while the pair is following the lead of Karl Rove, the GOP strategist who often hand-picks which congressional candidates will run, they haven?t yet shown they can match his effectiveness. In Rhode Island, Schumer wanted another popular pro-life Democrat, James Langevin, to run, but Langevin passed on the Senate race after abortion rights groups sharply objected. Schumer has been one of the leaders in crafting the party's strategy on judicial nominations, but Senate Democrats put on one of the most feeble challenges of a Supreme Court nominee in recent memory during the Alito hearings...
...various diseases. Fellow Republican lawmaker Charles Bass of New Hampshire gave her a chapter from Hatch's 2002 memoir Square Peg, in which the Senator explained his own conversion on the stem-cell issue. But the most compelling appeal, Wilson says, has come from a House Democrat--James Langevin of Rhode Island, an abortion foe who is also a quadriplegic as a result of an accidental gunshot wound suffered when he was a teenager. "When Jim Langevin talks to you about this," says Wilson, "he speaks with a certain understanding that the rest of us don't have...
...burning home. "All this for a beauty show." - By Simon Robinson. With reporting by Phil Akhaine/Kaduna FRANCE In the Picture A judge ordered three photographers to stand trial for taking pictures of the crash that killed Diana, Princess of Wales, and her lover Dodi Fayed in August 1997. Jacques Langevin, Christian Martinez and Fabrice Chassery will be tried in criminal court next year after a complaint by Mohamed al Fayed, Dodi's father. They will face charges of breaching privacy laws by taking pictures of Dodi inside the wrecked car. The trial will test the part of French law that...