Word: pickings
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...TIME 100 I read TIME's pick of "The World's Most Influential People" with great pleasure [May 11]. I found the articles fascinating, even poetic at times - until I got to Ann Coulter's essay on Sarah Palin. All of the other writers praise their candidates without disparaging someone else. Coulter, who in this case insults John McCain, seems incapable of such an approach. Melanie Hart, Troy, Mich...
...know that I deserve the heat, because I don't pick the guests. Never pick the guests. And a lot of times, I don't like it either. However, when the light goes on, I've got a job to do. So if we have to discuss the missing child or the beauty star who's divorcing her husband, it's the nature of the beast. You have to do it. I never throw away a show...
...Global Warming The House last week passed its version of landmark climate-change legislation, which the Senate is scheduled to pick up this summer. On his website, Franken declares his support for renewable energy: "I think we need a new 'Apollo project' - this time to fundamentally change our energy policy and end our reliance on foreign oil." But Franken will also be representing Minnesota: his website lists much longer and more detailed positions on agriculture. In the House, the rural caucus - big supporters of ethanol - was among the measure's biggest hurdles, and Franken is a big ethanol devotee. Though...
...nation. The Crimson had momentum on its side, but Princeton stopped the team in its tracks. The Tigers won five out of the nine matches in an intense encounter that would be echoed again later in the national championship match. No. 5 Yale gave Harvard another chance to pick up where it left off. The Crimson beat the Bulldogs, 6-3, in the final match of the season and solidified its No. 2 ranking going into the CSA National Team Championships. The team breezed through its early matches with Stanford and Penn, setting up a highly-anticipated rematch with Princeton...
...policy preferences and biases on the bench," says Ed Whelan, president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a group opposing Sotomayor's candidacy. "I'm going to continue to do all I can to expose Sotomayor's view of judging and why she's not a good pick for the court." Conservative activist groups are already airing commercials that attack Sotomayor's role in the New Haven case. Even a losing fight can have benefits for a party as disabled...