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What a Keverian victory will mean in as yet undetermined. The legislative process has already been loosened over the last year under McGee's rule--in what many see as a response to the Keverian challenge--and many say Keverian would still resist watering down the power of the Speaker as much as the rules reformers would like...
...development," tacit encouragement for activist native groups haggling with the Canadian government in Ottawa. At a wildly enthusiastic youth rally in Montreal's Olympic Stadium, hundreds of dancers arrayed themselves before the Pope in the form of a dove. He urged the festive audience, "Have the courage to resist the dealers in deception who make you pay dearly for a moment of 'artificial paradise'-a whiff of smoke, a bout of drinking or drugs...
...grace in all of this if it amounted to good, dirty fun. Even this modest goal is infrequently achieved. The rest is a disappointing hodgepodge of repetition and irrelevancy. Heller's attitude toward the past remains steadfastly muddled. He obviously appreciates and exploits ancient grandeur; he also cannot resist the urge to deface every monument he encounters. A certain biblical hero had a remedy for such behavior...
...aged Salieri, an infirmed, half-mad man confined to a mental institute. In the opening scenes, Salieri, who has both attempted suicide and confessed to murdering Mozart, scorns the attentions of the young priest who is sent to absolve him. But perverse pride overcomes derision, and the musician cannot resist recounting the role he played in Mozart's demise...
...that "macho Mexican-American men may resist the prospect of a female Vice President" is utterly ridiculous. That is stereotyping of the worst kind...