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Unfortunately, this compromise could be merely a delay before an inevitable showdown over the filibuster. The key to this compromise is the ambiguous phrase extraordinary circumstances, and the danger is that Republicans could interpret this phrase as, Democrats can keep the filibuster as long as they never use it. Especially in the event of a Supreme Court vacancy, arguments over a contentious judicial nomination could degenerate into a Filibuster: Round Two debate...
...comfortable to me, Mom." But to this day, her worrying abides--pride and fear marching step for step. "Every time I read a newspaper article or see on TV these boys dying, on both sides," she says through an interpreter, "my heart hurts." Her voice cracks on that last phrase. A devout Catholic, she says she just tries to release. "I don't think about the politics. There's nothing I can do if he goes there. I just pray for his safe return," she says...
...cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or reading about the “Xian myth...
...familiar - both lush and harsh, with the ancient sounds of the Japanese harp giving way, in one piece, to the ringing of tuned glass bottles. In the shifting tones, a faint harmony seems just out of reach. Lim likens the effect to "birdsong beginning inside the egg," a phrase she quotes from the 13th century Sufi mystic Jelaluddin Rumi. Even classical audiences can find Lim's music obscure. "The point for Liza is not about winning a popularity contest," says her husband and collaborator Buckley, who studied with Lim at Melbourne's Victorian College of the Arts...
...Lula administration lists 96 terms it wants to hear less of. Many are obvious: Don't call the physically handicapped cripples or the mentally handicapped mongoloids, and when describing Afro-Brazilians, steer clear of the Portuguese equivalent of the N word. But the list, whose heading includes the phrase politically correct, goes on to advise against using drunks, because even alcoholics deserve respect; Africans, because the term diminishes individual nationalities; old people, because elderly doesn't carry as much stigma; and street children, because many of those young people have homes. The list also urges Brazilians to stop calling foreigners...