Word: repping
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Wakim responded strongly to the charges against his academic record, calling the charges a “despicable attack on my honor” launched by incumbent Rep. Alan B. Mollohan, D-W.V. “and his Democratic cronies...
...Raul Castro has always been known as Fidel's enforcer - the ideologically hard-line, iron-fisted watchdog of his big brother's regime. It's hardly an undeserved rep, one he started building by overseeing the summary execution of scores of soldiers loyal to former Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista after Fidel overthrew Batista in 1959. But as Raul, 75, takes control of that government this week - at least, according to an official communiqu?, until Fidel recuperates from major surgery to stop intestinal bleeding - Washington may be straining for more signs of his lesser-known side...
...conferences” of her First Lady days.Inevitably, some of her advisers will push the womanly image that won many votes during her 2000 Senate campaign. But in the fight for the presidency, voters do not want a victim, which she played well in 2000 when her opponent, former Rep. Rick Lazio (R-NY), nearly attacked her during the pair’s first debate or when her approval soared to all-time highs across the nation post-Monica. As the country saw in the downfall of the weak-kneed Kerry and the staid Gore to the cowboy Bush, though...
This being America, the dragon is already partly inside. Take for example, last week’s House debate on the Federal Marriage Amendment. Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga) said, “I think God has spoken very clearly on this issue”. When contradicted, he replied, “I refer the gentleman to the Holy Scriptures...
...Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.) and Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), the chairman of the House's conservative caucus, plan to announce a plan Tuesday that fits the broad parameters of what Bush has proposed - border security plus a temporary worker program, without amnesty. But it includes several constraints aimed at appealing to the hard core of House Republicans who had been insisting on a security-only approach...