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...again. And last Wednesday evening the bill survived yet another near-death experience, when its backers in the House went head-to-head with one of their most powerful opponents, the National Rifle Association. Republicans, led by Tom DeLay, the majority whip from Sugar Land, Texas, offered a clever "poison pill" amendment that would have exempted gun-rights groups from the bill's limits on paid issues advertising. If the amendment passed, it could have killed the entire bill by forcing it into a House-Senate conference, where opponents could bottle it up forever. N.R.A. lobbyists swarmed through the Capitol...
...darted around the chamber, keeping wavering Democrats from changing their mind. As time ran out on the vote, DeLay looked back at the rear door to see if any more stragglers were coming. Finally, he drew a finger across his throat: the signal to end the vote tally. The poison pill failed by a narrow 219-to-209 vote...
Having breast cancer is massive amounts of no fun. First they mutilate you; then they poison you; then they burn you. I have been on blind dates better than that...
...CONAN O'BRIEN Conan the Non-Barbarian close to getting $7.5 million deal to re-sign with NBC. It's nice to finally see someone from Harvard make good Losers PRINCE HENRIK Queen of Denmark's consort feels slighted by other royals. Lucky Danes don't settle grudges with poison, incest or petard-hoisting anymore RUDOLPH GIULIANI His Ex-Honor criticized by fire and police unions for attending premiere of Collateral Damage. And then he actually had to sit through the film JAMES BROWN Employee sues Soul man for sexual harassment. When he said...
...list of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s misdeeds is overwhelming. Besides shunning international weapons inspectors, seeking to obtain nuclear missiles, torturing political prisoners and starving his own people, Hussein “has already used poison gas to murder thousands” of native Iraqis, as Bush noted...