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Today's advocates of the chain gang offer a much more sanitized scenario for its institution. But even without the squalid conditions and whippings, the spectre of back-breaking labor mandated by the state remains. It is the promise of that very labor that people such as Edwards use to press the chain gang's case; the new workforce can be turned to improving roads, public lands and other state infrastructure...
Being placed at 29 Garden St. was in some ways like the experience of life at Harvard in general: you sometimes have to make the best out of an imperfect scenario...
...guns. Will I defend myself?' I'd been in law enforcement at that time about five years, and the question was so off the wall. I mean, you should be talking about probable cause, about why they would come to take my firearms from me. But the scenario being painted was, all of a sudden, the government turns into a fascist government. They're gonna come and get us. This was what he was suggesting, and I wasn't prepared to get in a discussion with him. So I brushed him off. That conversation really bugged the hell...
...inventory correction'' -- a pause while businesses draw down inventories they overbuilt during the rapid growth of the past two years. "We're not as surprised as some outsiders to see some weak numbers,'' insists Fed governor Janet Yellen, a Clinton appointee. "These are actually consistent with the [soft landing] scenario...
...becoming the next surgeon generalplummeted when Senate supporters today failed, 57 to 43, to muster the 60 votes needed to block a threatened filibuster and bring his nomination to a vote. The Tennessee physician has the 51 votes he needs for confirmation, but the nomination is foundering under a scenario thatMajority Leader Bob Doleset in motion Tuesday. Dole, taking advantage of a filibuster threat byGOP presidential rival Phil Gramm, scheduled a vote to end debate on Foster after three hours today. "It's brilliant," says TIME's Karen Tumulty. "He's won on both counts: it looks like...