Word: moving
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...something," she said. "This is wrong." They had just taken a historic oath, she reminded her colleagues--some of them still fingering the souvenir pens with which they signed the impeachment book. Did they really want to start the process with such a partisan move? She appealed to a sense of personal trust that has not dissolved completely; Senators still shake hands across the aisles. The mood in the room swept behind her as Republicans rose in agreement. Said Larry Craig of Idaho, a conservative: "If there's any chance of not having this be a partisan vote...
Dole brings something to the party's civil war that her rivals do not. A generation of Republican candidates have courted religious activists with position papers; Liddy courts them with piety. She tries to devote 30 minutes to Bible study every day and can move the faithful with her Scripture-packed story of rediscovering God at midlife. She has opposed abortion except in the case of rape, incest or endangering the life of the mother, but she makes the activists nervous. Antiabortion language had a way of disappearing from drafts of her speeches in 1996. Dole is betting that...
...wonderful you almost wanted to move to the Minnesota tundra and forget questions about whether Jesse can govern or whether tripartisan politics will be a fetid swamp. You also wanted to forget that Jesse kept speaking in bromides and stuck to a schedule of at least one head-smackingly dumb remark daily, reminding everyone that hoo-yah! is awfully close to yahoo...
...years ago, concerns about Y2K helped persuade Jerry and Carolyn Head to move from a suburb of Dallas to an 85-acre farm near Harrison. The Heads don't think of themselves as survivalists. "Most of them are nuts," says Jerry, 51. "We're planners," explains Carolyn, 52, a teacher who homeschools daughter Sarah, 17, and son David, 14. (Their son Lesley, 23, also lives at home.) For them, planning has meant buying a home generator, a 1,000-gal. propane tank and a small flock of chickens. The Heads expect cash to be useless for a while after...
Paglia, who is professor of the humanities atthe University of the Arts in Philadelphia, saidSchor's career move "is an excellent example ofthe kind of amoral careerism and the nakedambition that has been so typical of literaryscholars who drove up salaries in the starsystem...