Word: matters
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Davis then found that, having proposed his motion, council regulations forbid open debate on the matter. The motion--according to rules established in the council's constitution--would have to be voted up or down without discussion...
...overtime last year, it was just a matter of if, or when, Harvard would score and avoid the tie. Dartmouth never cleared the zone, and winger Tammy Shewchuk converted one of her 51 goals to win. Harvard also controlled the puck for the first two minutes of overtime on Friday, but then Dartmouth junior center Lauren Trottier forced a turnover in the neutral zone and threw a shot on goal. Wiehn knocked in the rebound...
That tendency explains why McCain is not well loved in the Republican cloakroom, where after-class feelings matter. "If he would just count to five sometimes," says a G.O.P. Senate veteran, "he would probably get a lot more done." Detractors say that's why he is never able to corral the votes to pass campaign-finance reform and why his tobacco legislation, which his committee passed by a vote of 19 to 1, never saw the President's desk. Hogwash, say allies like Feingold, who argue that without McCain, some legislation would never get as far as it does...
...first-rate temperament. In the years since, America has elected brilliant men and charming ones, wonks, rogues, rascals, a general, an actor, a nuclear engineer, in a rolling judgment about knowledge and wisdom, instinct and style. At times it seems that the murkier the issues, the sharper the matter of character becomes...
...that the names are less relevant than his policies toward them. But the quiz was as much a test of his political radar as of his foreign-policy smarts: ever since he confused Slovenia and Slovakia and called the Greeks Grecians, he should have known it was only a matter of time before someone administered a midterm exam. And at other moments during the week, when he veered off text, the words just sort of floated out there, untied to any actual ideas. The implicit charge is less that he's stupid than that he's incurious, proudly anti-intellectual...