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...accountable to the people, or at least one which requires literally hundreds of elected officials to be crooked or lazy before it breaks down. And even in that case, we have the court system and the appeals process (and ultimately the civil liberties afforded us by the constitution) to protect us from bad laws...
...what has most angered Representatives about DeLay was a vote he engineered in December in the House Republican conference to change its rules so that G.O.P. congressional leaders could keep their posts even if they were indicted for a crime--a move that was clearly designed to protect his power if the Texas case took a bad turn. The move blindsided even Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert. The conference withdrew the change in the ensuing political firestorm but left in place the proposal, now being opposed by Democrats, that would make it impossible for the ethics committee to launch...
...witness stand, guided by district attorney Thomas Sneddon, the boy, who is not being named to protect his identity, declared that two years ago, in Jackson's bedroom, the singer twice molested him. "I was under the covers, and that is when he put his hand down my pants and started masturbating me," the boy said. A day or two later, "he did it one more time." He said that Jackson showed him and his younger brother pornography in magazines and on the Internet, and plied them with wine--"Jesus juice"--in Diet Coke cans. Under stern cross-examination...
...clear when you consider the entirety of the sentence you quoted from my speech: “Beyond the cost in lives and property, the 9/11 attack—or rather our reaction to it—exposed a far-reaching element of the threat posed by terrorism: To protect ourselves physically, we might feel compelled to change fundamentally the way we live, sacrificing our society’s openness for hoped-for safety...
With a three-goal cushion in place, the Crimson turned to its defense to close out the contest. Boe stifled a potent Big Green attack, making tough save after tough save throughout the second and third periods to protect her team’s lead and seal the title for Harvard...