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...Democrats wasted no time hunkering down into traditional filibuster mode, in which one party holds the floor as long as they can in order to prevent a vote on a nominee or issue. Sixty votes are required to stop a filibuster. By Wednesday, February, 12th, less than 36 hours after Estrada's name came to the floor, the always-garrulous Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia was regaling his colleagues with lengthy (and, yes, totally irrelevant) tales of his long-lost youth. It was a scene that brought to mind some of the chamber's famous filibusters...
...planning to further muddy the waters with more gestures of magnanimity toward his own people and the wider Arab world. But that's a risky business for a man who rules by fear. When he threw open the prisons last month, thousands of Iraqis celebrated their reunions with long-lost loved ones. But scores of others, whose relatives had simply disappeared, were moved to mount unprecedented acts of public protest. In his worst nightmares, Saddam may find himself agreeing to disarm in order to avoid a war, but in the process setting the stage for the internal collapse...
...that read “this way to your family farm,” my aunt navigated using implicit directions; subtle bends in a stream and large rocks directed us. Along the way, a young boy, about eight years old, and his sister, probably nine, ran toward us like long-lost friends. My sister and I had never seen them before, but they knew who we were: the children born in America who didn’t speak our mother’s language, who had never been to Vietnam, who had never met our grandfather who died four years...
...graduate school application communities of the world should all come together in love and friendship as college admissions departments once did, and create a Common Application For All Post-College Endeavors. This form would be called the CAFAPE, pronounced “calf ape,” a long-lost second cousin...
...hate this country and its contradictions. I want to believe that Sacagawea hated this country and its contradictions. But this country exists, in whole and in part, because Sacagawea helped Lewis and Clark. In the land that came to be called Idaho, she acted as diplomat between her long-lost brother and the Lewis and Clark party. Why wouldn't she ask her brother and her tribe to take revenge against the men who had enslaved her? Sacagawea is a contradiction. Here in Seattle, I exist, in whole and in part, because a half-white man named James Cox fell...