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...message from us should be that we love celebration, but it’s got to be the right kind of celebration,” Palfrey said...
...Coach refers to the battles right in front of the net as the ‘mud areas’,” Dempsey explained. “This past weekend we were really just sacrificing and getting in the mud to get the job done...We were hungry, so we were just going at them, and I think that will be the same this weekend...
Many of D.C.'s same-sex-marriage supporters see the same threat and hope to keep the issue off the ballot. "If all civil rights were put up for a vote, then we would all be in big trouble," said Morgan Murphy, a heterosexual who had postponed getting her marriage license for six years while waiting for that right to be extended to homosexuals. But as she readied to join the queue of applicants with her fiancé, Todd Williamson, she concentrated on the moment. "It's time for equality," she said, "and today is the day that we start...
Republicans are promising that Democrats will pay a price this fall for passing such a sweeping and controversial bill this way - and they may be right. "A raw exercise of legislative power," Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell called the emerging game plan. He vowed, "It will be the issue in every race in America this fall." Yet this use of the reconciliation procedure - ironically misnamed, given the antagonism it has stirred - would not be as radical a maneuver as Republicans claim. Created in 1974, reconciliation has been used 21 times, mostly by Republicans, who employed it to, among other things...
...airwaves to tell quake victims that there is no food or fuel shortage. But on Wednesday morning in Concepción, says Lewis, "there were thousands of stranded cars and trucks in the city because there is no gas." He adds, "Building up social trust is more important right now than physical rebuilding," perhaps because of the reign of terror under the 17-year military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Chileans still have a wary relationship with security institutions - an instinct exacerbated by the post-quake inefficiencies of the government. "You can see it clearly in this crisis," says Lewis...