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...leader Tom DeLay can make the gun lobby happy by suggesting, as he did last week, that no such bill will ever reach Bush's desk. And Democrats can fuss and fume over how Bush and the Republicans are trying to have it both ways--while quietly breathing a sigh of relief at being spared a vote that would expose the party's own divisions on the issue...
...long line of people, and he’d point at me and ask, ‘You in the back, what do you want?’ I’d reply that I was there to report a stolen bike and he’d sigh and say ‘Okay, those forms are out back; I’ll have to show you where they are.’ Then we’d walk out back and be able to chat for a short while,” she said...
...syringe hanging out of its abdomen around a dorm room. Charlie was not amused. Neither was I. After 12 more shots, hundreds of dollars on vet bills and many subway trips to the vet hospital with a snake poking around my backpack, Charlie passed away. I breathed a guilty sigh of relief...
...they started to reek, and they ate incredible amounts of dining hall fare—ten daily cups of rice and vegetables—and were eventually shipped off to live a happy farm life with Harvard the Lamb. Finally, a pet-free suite. I breathed a not guilty sigh of relief because—clearly—no student should keep an animal in a building owned or leased by the College...
...life. In Hammond, La., if Janet Wright wants to save on tax-free groceries at a military commissary while her husband serves in California, she has to load a cooler into her car and drive at least an hour. "What you save in tax-free," she says with a sigh, "you've just spent in gas." The families of activated reservists qualify for the same health plan as active-duty families, but that can mean finding new doctors and learning to navigate yet another bureaucracy. Their creditors' employees are not always aware that the Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief...