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...several other controversial possibilities, including Lino Graglia, a University of Texas law professor who has twice been rejected by the A.B.A. ''The White House has to decide if it wants the curtain to come down on the Reagan judiciary in the second term,'' says McGuigan, urging the Administration to push harder against the increased Senate resistance. One member of that resistance, Illinois Democrat Paul Simon, also sees the Manion battle as critical. ''Those appointed to the federal bench for life,'' he says, ''should be the best the legal profession has to offer. Too many clearly are not.'' While the Senate...
There are many practices unique to the Tokyo Metro. Trains are generally stuffed to bursting, yet at every stop people manage to push their way onto the train as those around them bang into each other like bowling pins with no space to tumble. Talking on a cell phone is strongly discouraged, however texting tends to be the favorite activity of most of the train riders. Tokyo commuters have also developed an uncanny ability to sleep standing up, somehow waking up just when the train reaches their station...
...sidestep the potential trade-offs of their respective positions. When pressed, Obama will admit that the U.S. has a military responsibility to make sure Iraq "doesn't collapse," allowing that his timelines can be adjusted. Similarly, McCain will admit that there is only so far any leader can push against American public opinion, allowing for the possibility of withdrawal before total victory. "When the American people don't support a war," McCain said last year, "then we aren't able to maintain a foreign endeavor...
...agenda, but they opposed certain reforms that threatened their labor-union base, including a plan to liberalize the banking sector and changes to India's socialistic labor laws. Now that left-leaning lawmakers have bolted from the coalition, Singh, an economist, could find it easier to push reforms through - although his allies say they'll proceed with caution to avoid alienating the millions of Indians who haven't shared in the country's economic boom. "No policy should be forced down people's throats," says Kapil Sibal, a Congress Party stalwart and minister in Singh's government. "Growth with equity...
...They did. While the campaign itself launched a fusillade of negative attacks, a network of murky anti-McCain groups ran push polls spreading lies about McCain's record. They papered the state with leaflets claiming, among other things, that Cindy McCain was a drug addict and John had fathered a black child out of wedlock, complete with a family photograph. The dark-skinned girl in the photo was, in fact, the McCains' daughter Bridget, whom they adopted as an infant after Cindy met her on a charity mission at Mother Teresa's orphanage in Bangladesh. It was, even by G.O.P...