Word: ritual
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...sacred Washington ritual, a quadrennial attempt at human sacrifice to appease the gods of compromise. At the dawn of each Administration, the President anoints his team, and the confirmation games begin. The interest groups on left and right begin to stir and sniff; the oppo research folders get fattened up for the fight; Senators who will sit in judgment begin voicing "concerns" or "questions" about this candidate's qualifications or that one's paper trail. But almost never--only nine times in Senate history--has a Cabinet nominee been voted down. About the same number pulled out rather than suffer...
...time," says Oklahoma's Senator Don Nickles. As for the Democrats, Daschle will try to keep his members in line--making trouble for nominees in a disciplined, coordinated way. But if Republicans balk and the power-sharing agreement falls apart, Daschle will let the dogs out. And the quadrennial ritual known as confirmation may see some true blood sacrifice...
...more than 10 cents, all in pennies, money collected from Aunt Sally and Charles' mother, Leola, and from our own stash. We never won, never hit the number, though we tried elaborate systems (jumbled birthdays and the like). But the trip to Chink's remained all summer a hopeful ritual, an adventure...
...business about the illegal Guatemalan who lived in Chavez's house will not help. Perhaps Chavez is being set up as the designated sacrifice - the ritual victim whose rejection will be intended to warn the new Bush administration against more conservative Supreme Court appointments later in the game. The dogs Bork, the caravan moves...
...million were homeless and 10,000 remained stranded in trees or on rooftops. In the fall of 1999 Hurricane Floyd dealt Florida and the Southeast a glancing blow that left people bailing; the rains of autumn 2000 left the same folks wondering if inundation was to be an annual ritual. In Miami in October, Hulda Stern, 93, who lived on her own with her cat Pinky, refused to leave the house in which she had lived since 1945. Some scientists warned that global warming would make the tropical storms of the future ever more intense, destructive and lethal...