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Moreover, the Republicans appear to believe in differential treatment for the parties. When President Bush wants to send 500,000 troops to Iraq overnight, he just waves his magic wand. But if President Clinton wants to send one twentieth of that number to Haiti, the Republicans want to vote first! You'd think they forgot about passing the War Powers Act for their old buddy Richard Nixon and his little policing actions...
...fertilized by the water, strange stories seemed to spring up overnight. In Liberty a farmer was forced to conduct a submarine cattle drive through snake-infested floodwaters in order to get his herd onto higher ground. In Kingwood a man chased from his house by rising water returned by boat the next day in the hope of finding his missing dog; not far away, the dog -- very much alive -- was bobbing like an apple in 18 ft. of water...
...amount of time thinking about what he or she believes. Because what you really believe in coincides with meaning in a larger sense, with meaning that connects to other people alive and dead and yet to be born." At the end Frazier remembers sitting in his mother's bedroom overnight as her death approached. Suddenly he switches to future tense, foreseeing not only what will happen to her but also to him and to his children and to all the generations to come: "Our graves would go untended, and the graves of those who had tended ours would go untended...
...eccentric Governor looked vulnerable to Bush's claims that he was out of touch with Florida's economic interests. By month's end, however, he was Florida's Horatius at the immigration bridge, prevailing upon a reluctant Clinton to intern at Guantanamo those rafters plucked from the sea. Almost overnight, Chiles commandeered Florida's red-hot immigration debate and became the only gubernatorial Friend of Bill's with valid anti-Bill credentials...
Students who wish to host overnight guests must obtain permission from their house office or first-year proctor. Guests must be registered before Saturday...