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...connection explicit. Both have obligations to melodramatic plotting and characterization that to a degree blur the inherent point of the exercise. In the end, Hanna's defense of her crime - she allowed most of her prisoners to die in a fire in a church (hard to imagine a more obvious choice of crime scene) - comes down to, well, yes, what Hannah Arendt called the banality of evil...
...House Ways and Means Committee, which not only writes tax law but also oversees trade policy and is responsible for the nearly half of the federal budget that goes toward Social Security, Medicare and means-tested entitlements. Complicating the matter for House Democratic leaders is the lack of an obvious successor for Rangel at this time of economic turmoil. The next in line for the post by seniority is California Congressman Pete Stark, one of the most liberal and hotheaded members of Congress. He has been known to challenge other members of the committee to fight him and once called...
...that link disappeared. Instead, one had to write an email explaining why he or she did not want to pay the $75. Moreover, by 2008 one had to handwrite that same letter and send it to the Student Receivables Office. There is, in short, an obvious and disturbing pattern toward making the opt-out process more annoying and time-consuming than it ever should have been...
...mere five for the Wildcats, but the Crimson could not get past UNH’s ace netminder.Harvard out-shot the Wildcats, 37-13, for the game.“By the end of the game, both teams were playing two lines, so everyone was exhausted. It was obvious on the ice,” Vaillancourt said. “[The game] was kind of back and forth, and there wasn’t really a time that they were dominating and we weren’t.”Harvard’s overall weakness in goals this season...
...mention of taking August 6, 2001, warning of imminent terrorism more seriously •responsibility for collapse of economy on watch of is awkwardly placed by on "decisions that were made...over a decade or so, before I arrived in President, during I arrived in President" •the seemingly obvious - "I don't feel joyful when somebody loses their life, nor do I feel joyful from somebody loses a job" - is clumsily stated by •wish that Saddam actually had had weapons of mass destruction is expressed...