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...growing reform sentiment has helped Shadegg's dark-horse candidacy build momentum. Almost immediately after his entrance into the race , Shadegg became the favorite candidate of people who wanted a sharp break from DeLay, winning several newspaper endorsements, praise from conservative commentators like Bill Kristol and Bob Novak and the backing of conservative bible National Review. But over the last week, he's begun picking up support from people whose opinions actually matter in the leadership race, Republican members of Congress. Mike Pence, the head of the 110-member Republican Study Committee, a group of the House's most conservative...
...That sentiment has been expressed in a variety of measures passed by legislatures since a 1989 Supreme Court ruling gave states more leeway to restrict abortion. It's a reality the Supreme Court reaffirmed just last week. In a narrowly written but unanimous decision authored by Sandra Day O'Connor, the high court backed away from directly interfering with a New Hampshire law. The Justices said a lower court should not have struck down a parental-notification requirement entirely, and ordered the judges to come up with a more limited version that would protect the health of girls seeking abortions...
...recovery appears slim, we worry about the consequences for a peace process that, largely as a result of his actions, has steadily gained momentum in recent months.Sharon, like the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, was a towering figure in the ongoing strife between Israelis and Palestinians. But while the sentiment after Arafat’s death in November 2004 was one of cautious optimism for a new, more progressive generation of Palestinian leadership, Sharon’s illness may bring the slowly emerging Israeli movement toward peace to a halt. Certainly Sharon, as was Arafat, is as controversial a figure...
...agree wholeheartedly with that sentiment; Harvard’s creation of an undergraduate accounting course would certainly convenience scores of students. But it would do so at a real cost. To offer such a vocationally oriented course at Harvard would be a blow to the liberal arts foundations of Harvard’s undergraduate program, which have been rightly protected in the face of moves toward pre-professional courses at peer institutions like Princeton, Columbia, and Yale (all of which now offer courses in accounting to their undergraduates...
...devil's backyard, where nothing lives, and bring forth something that burns as hot as Satan's fire. One of the miners who died at Sago, Martin Toler Jr., wrote a note in his last hours: "Tell all I see them on the other side." It was the last sentiment of a man whom family described as deeply religious. But it was also a simple metaphor for the daily hope of every worker who delves in those deep reaches: to rise again and see the faces they love once more. And the fervent wish?felt, in our direst hours...