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Democrat Carl Levin plans to pick apart W.'s missile-defense scheme from his new perch atop the Armed Services Committee, and to probe oil-company price gouging as head of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Patrick Leahy will slow down the schedule for considering judicial nominees to give Democrats more time to stockpile ammunition against conservative ones. Next week Daschle plans to bring up a patient's bill of rights measure that Kennedy has sponsored with Senators John Edwards and John McCain. Bush has threatened to veto it. Says Joe Biden, who heads the Foreign Relations Committee: "Bush...
...Proof of how bad things have become was supplied by a proposal from the Macedonian Academy of Science and Arts that Macedonia and Albania swap villages, an implausible scheme that would redraw the borders and could trigger a new round of ethnic cleansing. That idea too was dismissed, thankfully. Macedonian government forces, meanwhile, continued a two-week-old offensive along the Kosovo border that has killed several civilians and forced thousands to flee. The government accuses rebels of keeping 10,000 civilians coralled as human shields. "We can hardly wait to get orders to move on and finish...
...LaBute is the genial Mormon, 38, who raises critics' spirits and audiences' hackles with dramatic essays in cruelty. His 1997 movie In the Company of Men had a suavely evil fellow concoct a scheme to seduce and then abandon an innocent deaf woman. "Let's do it," he says to a pal. "Let's hurt somebody." In Your Friends and Neighbors, six yuppies snipe at each other in bed and on every other battlefield. In Bash: Latterday Plays, which appeared off-Broadway and, last year, at the Almeida, nice people confess the most dreadful crimes, in tones so numb they...
...already come by The Crimson’s offices once more than his predecessor did in 10 years of service.) Only time will tell if he plans a truly new spirit of openness or if his recent actions are part of a nicely-packaged public relations scheme...
...real challenge of randomization, in many ways, lay not the implementation of itself but dealing with the fallout of the policy--for instance, the objections of old-school House masters who vigorously opposed the new scheme and actively drummed up opposition...