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...broadcasting Kuhl's vote in the district, which stretches from near Lake Ontario to the Pennsylvania border. The next night at a house party in Naples, New York, he told supporters how Kuhl's vote represented the worst of the Republican Party: solidarity with special interest groups and a rigid refusal to stray from the party line...
...While 2004’s “Our Endless Numbered Days” had only one real disappointment (the repetitive “Teeth in the Grass”), this album seems to have a few such teeth. It may seem silly to judge an album based on rigid, preconceived notions of what it should have been, but in a sense these are the criteria with which we judge all our favorite artists. To return to his roots, to basement recordings and a reliance on his haunting lyrics: that’s what we expect from Iron & Wine...
...Laughs.] Ethiopia has one of the highest incidences of blind?ness on earth because of trachoma, which is caused by filthy eyes. To eliminate flies, we taught people how to build very simple latrines. Women have adopted building them as a kind of liberation movement - there had been a rigid taboo against a woman relieving herself in the daytime - so although we thought we'd have about 10,000 latrines, we've passed 340,000. Now instead of my being famous for negotiating peace between Israel and Egypt, I'm famous in Ethiopia for being the No. 1 latrine builder...
Peskov ascribed the West's unease to both a historical chauvinism against Russia and a rigid desire to see Russia do exactly as the West does. "Some people don't understand that the Soviet Union is over. They face a completely different state, with different attitude," he said. "We are a country that shares the heart of international European values, but that is not going to repeat everything from A to Z." And Putin's vision for Russia? "I think what is wanted is that Russia is a powerful state," said Peskov, "with a prosperous population, being able to compete...
...real question to ask is which of the major candidates is best suited to serve at this particular moment in history. One unfortunate consideration about this particular moment in history is that a president’s success relies on his or her ability to operate within a rigid “system” that consists, in large part, of aggressive special interests representing everything from corporations and unions to environmental groups. Another hard truth: America will be red and blue, not purple, for the foreseeable future. Democrats will only make progress past red and blue when they actually...