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...writing The West Wing next season--is to halt a vote by hightailing it out of town and then evading the cops looking to drag you back. It's always a ratings grabber, like when some Republicans in the U.S. Senate locked themselves in their offices to quash a vote on a campaign-finance-reform bill in 1988, causing a sergeant at arms to carry Bob Packwood feetfirst to the Senate floor (after determining that Lowell Weicker was too heavy). The stunt pulled by Democrats in the Texas legislature last week was to avoid a vote on redistricting the state...
...Islamic community should work to quash fallacious perceptions of Muslims by campaigning specifically against such vilification, he said...
...urging students not to tear down posters, the council advised the administration to increase its drive to uphold “a community ideally characterized by free expression,” a notion codified in its own Handbook for Students. When a person does tear down a poster or quash a recognized student group’s freedom of expression, the University should not hesitate to send the case to the Administrative Board. Realistically, few vandals will be apprehended, making the need for a sufficiently harsh punishment all the more legitimate. More severe punishments will make clear that the University...
...program for training pilots to carry guns on flights and to have it under way by Feb. 25, 2003. The TSA now says there is no chance the training program will be up and running by that date. Proponents are outraged, claiming that the agency is quietly working to quash the program. "The TSA is trying to make arming pilots more complicated than it is," says Congressman John Mica, the Florida Republican who pushed the bill. "It's not the Manhattan Project...
...said he doubts that regulation of academic research will quash terrorist threats...