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...That a showdown was not more easily avoided reflects a generational shift under way in the Senate, and the fact that the once insular institution has become more reflective of the polarized political landscape around it. Moderates, of either party, are few. Traditionalists like Warner have increasingly been supplanted by a younger generation of Republican Senators, most of whom have arrived there by way of the more autocratic House, where on most questions it doesn't make any difference to the outcome whether the Democrats even show up to vote. In the 2004 election, six of the seven Republican freshmen...
...until the Democrats started filibustering judges two years ago, the measure was almost never used to defeat a President's judicial nominee. Since then, they have used the filibuster to block 10 of Bush's picks--seven of whom he has renominated, in part to provoke this week's showdown. Democrats say what they are doing is no worse than the Republicans' preferred tactic when Bill Clinton was President: making sure controversial nominations never got past the Judiciary Committee, which was controlled by the Republicans...
...press agents and not reveal who's who and what happens. Suffice to say that this adaptation of the graphic novel by John Wagner has four outbreaks of jolting violence to give some kick to a penetrating character study; and that the real Joey Cusack has a savory showdown with his mob-boss brother Richie (played by William Hurt with a rich pleasure in menace). Mortensen, whose Tom is as stalwart as his Middle-Earth Aragorn, is completely convincing and utterly hunky -a man worth loving, no matter...
With IRAs and national title talk looming on the horizon, Harvard and Princeton appear set for another showdown in Camden...
...Harvard’s for eight long years, the bow ball sided with the Crimson. Harvard crossed the line in 5:40.56 and Yale finished right alongside in 5:40.79. Only a slow-motion photo finish could determine the victor in the most recent Harvard-Yale showdown. Cornell rounded out the three with a time of 5:40.82, and Navy came in fourth at 5:41.53. All four boats broke the old course record of 5:41.2, set by Yale...