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Come January, however, the man that the liberal Nation magazine once called the "Eliot Ness of the Democrats" can do even more, thanks to the two words that strike fear in the heart of every government official: subpoena power. As the new chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, Waxman will have free rein to investigate, as he puts it, "everything that the government is involved with." And the funny thing is, Waxman can thank the Republicans for the unique set of levers he will hold. Under a rules change they put through in the days when they used...
Still, many Catholics are rooting for him to come up with a way to engage without enraging. The widely read Catholic blogger Amy Welborn says, "I think there's a pretty widespread fed-up-ness with Islamic sensitivity. I agree that elements of Islam that either explicitly espouse violence or are less than aggressive in combatting it need to be challenged and nudged, [just as] I would like to see the Pope continue to challenge and nudge people of all different religions--Christian and non-Christian--to look at the suffering of people." She thinks that, given the heat...
...sets accommodate a cast of characters who find again and again that their intellectual de-fenses have either gone out of date or been knocked down by the business of living. The fresh-ness of perspective engendered by such disorientation is consistently rendered with affectionate grace...
...Suite Gothique. Brooks displayed talent well beyond that of many of the upperclassmen organists during this difficult piece. Carson Cooman, Memorial Church’s research associate in music, continued with “In Your Presence is Fullness of Joy,” by Patricia Van Ness. The less intricate piece served as a fine interlude between Brooks’s intense performance and the two final pieces.Joy-Leilani Garbutt from the Graduate School of Education played the second to last piece, a Louis Vierne Impromptu. This was another highlight, as Garbutt played through the difficult and diverse piece...
...addition to calling out “Go on, I’m English / Try and deport me!” at the end of two verses on “Love Me or Hate Me,” she has an entire song devoted to her foreign-ness, “My England...