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...same can be said of the impassioned, impugned House managers, who, whatever the merits of their case, put a lie to the assumption that all politicians are driven solely by polls and survival instincts. One could wonder where their compass pointed, but no one mistook it for a weather vane. Henry Hyde argued that "there's no political profit in this. A President Gore would not be helpful to the Republican Party." But when Hyde faced the Senators, he challenged them to larger purposes: "I have always believed that there are issues of transcendent importance that you have...
Despite some highly publicized incidents each year--like the fatal shooting two weeks ago of a camouflaged hunter by a 13-year-old Wisconsin boy who mistook him for a squirrel--hunting's defenders point out that the sport is one of the safest outdoor activities, with fewer casualties than climbing or boating, for example...
Unbeknownst to Tucker at the time, the LONEOS program, a professional search effort at Lowell Observatory, had already sighted the comet, but the program mistook the comet for a common Main Belt asteroid...
After a student mistook me for one of the move-in parents, I decided that I was getting a bit old for this routine and my other sister and I decided to wander down to another first-year dorm to visit the room where she had spent her own first year of college...
...write the cover story, senior editor Joshua Cooper Ramo visited Intel chip plants on three continents and spent weeks studying the company, including two days traversing the valley with the peripatetic executive (after some Stanford students mistook the clean-cut journalist for a security man, Grove referred to his chronicler as "Agent Ramo...