Word: soled
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Then, embarrassingly, there is the U.S. Constitution, which grants Congress the sole power to declare war, though it also makes the President the Commander in Chief of the armed forces and thus able to order them into harm's way. The debates over the constitutional status of an invasion of Haiti have been wildly distorted by partisanship. Democrats who insisted George Bush had to seek congressional approval to start the Persian Gulf War -- as he finally did, successfully -- contend that an invasion of Haiti would be a much smaller, less dangerous undertaking. Comparable, in fact, to the Reagan Administration invasion...
Heyman will assume sole responsibility for the courses he and Herrnstein taught together. The classes he was scheduled to teach alone will be canceled...
Increasing the tension level were fears that dissent could turn into violence. Islamic fundamentalists who are seeking to overthrow Mubarak warned delegates not to come to Cairo. In response, the government deployed a 14,000- strong police force with the sole assignment of protecting the expected 20,000 conference participants. But no one could guarantee peace in the streets -- or any kind of meaningful consensus inside the meeting hall...
...endless vista of shiny, neon-lighted fast-food joints. The crumbling, once graceful seafront is still a long way from that plastic vision. Potuombo gestures at the crowd in his cafe, who are placidly consuming not Whoppers or Big Macs but the tepid brown soda that is the sole item on his depleted menu. "These are the real Cubans," he proclaims. "These are the people who will defend the revolution despite the limitations of the moment...
Whether discussing food or crepe-sole shoes, the point is always to take the personal public, while preserving an intimate audience. That's why the thing most feared by a zine publisher is fame, even the notorious kind. Greta, for instance, is the publisher of Mudslap, but Greta is an alias, and she puts out her zine as she hitches rides in the boxcars of America's railway system. "I don't want anyone to know too much about it -- 'cause if they do, then people will think they're Jack London or Steinbeck. They'll go freight hopping...