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Beyond the risk to the bikers, drivers sharing the road with the daredevils are also in peril, law-enforcement officials say. Drivers can change lanes having no idea that a racing bike is about to appear - and tragedy can easily strike. At first, the buzzing of an approaching high-speed motorcycle sounds like a gnat near your ear, then it suddenly becomes loud and threatening. Segui remembers a woman who heard that noise and jerked her steering wheel in the opposite direction, jumping a curb and crashing...
...based on his expertise and the research done by his office on precedents, a course of action to whomever is presiding over the Senate - in formal votes this is the Vice President. But if the leaders choose to ignore the parliamentarian's advice, they do so at their own peril: rulings that aren't backed up are subject to challenge. "Whoever's in the chair does make the ultimate decision but that can be overruled by a vote of the members," says Senator Kent Conrad, chairman of the Budget Committee. "You're just not in a position where...
Gone is the watercooler nation that signed on to the Cold War consensus, sent men to the moon and embraced Ike's ambitious interstate highway system. "The occasion is piled high with difficulty," said Abraham Lincoln at a moment of supreme peril to American democracy, "and we must rise with the occasion." Notice: he said we must rise. But that requires, if nothing else, a sense of shared values. Few paid much attention last December as Southern Republicans in the Senate blocked a $14 billion federal rescue of GM and Chrysler. That lawmakers representing states with nonunion foreign-auto plants...
...contributions to the law admirable, and his manifest concern for the plight of the most vulnerable of our citizens made his a beacon worth following," Tribe wrote in an e-mail. "I’m sure his reflections will prove enlightening at a time of national soul-searching and peril...
...more. The voters have sung with voices stentorian in Massachusetts. This is only the beginning. The song being sung across America is about the audacity of the voters. Ignore them at your peril. At the end of the day, those who put you in power have the power. We are the people of the United States and we have had enough. The president can pay for his own walk—a walk that will lead from the White House all the way back to Chicago in 2012. Congress can tremble knowing the “audacity of hope?...