Word: sentimentals
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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...
...Voter sentiment was the same from the crowded cities of the Gaza strip to hillside towns in the West Bank: It's time to teach the ruling Fatah party a lesson. As Palestinians lined up to vote Wednesday in their first legislative elections in ten years, many said that their government needed a shakeup. Fatah, founded by Yasser Arafat and led today by Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas, is widely viewed as corrupt and incompetent. According to polls, around a third of all Palestinian voters now support Hamas, a radical Islamist group committed to destroying Israel but also widely...
...East Jerusalem, controlled by Israel but claimed by Palestinians as the capital of their future state, the sentiment was the same. "I hope Hamas does well," said Haytham Rajabi, 22, handing out leaflets for an independent candidate outside a voting station. "I get paid to give these out but my heart is with Hamas. They're a very good movement: clean and strong. They can be tough with the Israeli occupiers...
...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...
...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...