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...their Senate counterparts on this issue. A bi-partisan Senate bill would strip Rumsfeld of some of his budgetary powers and transfer them to the new NDI, but the House Republicans aren’t buying. Bush, meanwhile, hasn’t budged. The protracted stalemate has led even Norm Orenstein, analyst at the right-wing American Enterprise Institute, to question the President’s resolve: “The question we really have now is, ‘How serious is the president?’ If he told the Republicans he wanted it done...
...sleep, we automatically assume that the person has mono (or some other disease that causes a person to sleep more than five hours a night), is a loser, is incredible at managing time, or just not taking on enough. Five to six hours of sleep is the norm, four is admirable, and three implies superhuman abilities...
Final clubs have bowed to changes in society’s norm in the past. The Spee was the first to allow women and non-members inside its clubhouse, writes Cooney. And many clubs now have diverse memberships...
...visible sports—football, men’s and women’s hockey, and men’s and women’s basketball, for instance. Those teams attract the largest fan base and their members have come to typify the “jock” norm at many of the nations’ colleges...
...sometimes—because, in a way, me talking about Gehry’s building is even worse than some 19th century critic talking about a naked lady. At least that critic was aspiring to a discussion of meaning, even if he was only applying an a priori cultural norm. The most I can do right now is admit that the Disney Hall looks pretty damn cool and wax poetic about my experience of it. Of course I’m not really planning to retreat into nostalgia for the unproblematic meaning of the past, but I don?...