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...working on a Senate bill on the subject. John Kerry went a step further last week. He threatened to filibuster the telecommunications bill unless it included net neutrality protections. On the website of savetheinternet.com, Kerry wrote: "This vote was a gift to cable and telephone companies, and a slap in the face of every Internet user and consumer. It will not stand...
...Senator William Borah, a long-gossiped-about fact that will be confirmed by letters in Cordery's biography. "Alice had no idea how to be a mother," says Cordery. When her husband died in 1931, Alice was asked if she would run for his seat. But "Alice couldn't slap backs and kiss babies," Cordery says. Instead, she commented from the sidelines, observing that Wendell Wilkie, the Republican hope to defeat F.D.R. in 1940, enjoyed support from "the grass roots of 10,000 country clubs...
...Wedding season is here again. Your attendance has been requested. Dust off your finest, buy a well-wrapped gift, and slap on an optimistic smile...
...year-old African American, I agree with the Republicans on illegal immigration. When people choose to ignore immigration procedures, it is a slap in the face to those from various countries who have come to the U.S. legally. Unlimited immigration would strain any country's health, schools, and job market. I was incensed when I heard some people compare the protests by Mexicans and other Latinos to our civil rights movement. Barbara Kelly Richmond, Virginia...
...waited. Then a soldier emerged on the ridgeline. "He didn't say anything-he just shot a grenade at us," Afonza says. It whistled over the family's heads and dropped over the ridge. "I picked up my son and ran. Then I felt something like a stinging slap on my neck and I fell over and looked down. There was blood on my son. I thought, He's been shot...