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“I’d be remiss if I didn’t say this concerned me a little, the precedent we are setting here,” said Li. “We have to draw a very careful line to say that we allowed, on this...
“We agreed that the legislation would not in fact diverge from the suggestions put forward in the report,” Ryan said. “This is not going to be an occasion for tweaking, just translation.”
As Tony Blair submitted to his weekly inquisition by MPs in the House of Commons on Wednesday, his opponents sought to highlight splits opening within Labour ranks as its pols jockey for position in anticipation of the Prime Minister's looming departure. But it was a deeper gulf that yawned...
Having now turned 80, Martini is no longer eligible to vote in future conclaves. As for the now-Pope Benedict, his 80th birthday arrives in April. For the occasion, one wonders whether the pontiff would prefer from Martini another lively intellectual debate, or perhaps a permanent return to his bible...
Shortly after I entered the fourth grade, my mother withdrew me from Minnesota’s public school system and set to teaching me on her own. For her, homeschooling was not an attempt to stall our inevitable separation, as it is for some parents. Rather, part of her competence...