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Harriet Miers can ill afford to lose any more support. But sources at the Capitol tell TIME that the Supreme Court nominee has aggravated Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter, the Republican from Pennsylvania, who will oversee a confirmation hearing set to begin Nov. 7. With conservative calls for Miers to withdraw escalating by the day, Specter had started to feel sorry for her and was trying to help. But the Senator, says an official who has talked to him, is now "very, very, very unhappy...
...quake was followed by even more misery, as untold numbers in remote mountain villages went days without seeing any sign of relief. The delay in getting supplies to the disaster zone raised fears of untreated injuries, disease and malnutrition, or worse: the looming snow season could present the specter of masses of people freezing to death...
...heard much about the potential replacement for Sandra Day O'Connor that they like. On Fox News Sunday, Gary Bauer, a prominent conservative evangelical, said "she sounds a lot like another swing vote, which was the last thing we were expecting a conservative president to give us." Arlen Specter, a moderate and top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said on ABC's This Week he planned on aggressively questioning Miers on constitutional issues, because he isn't sure she's very familiar with them. And conservatives may now have more reason to worry about Miers. Texas Supreme Court Justice...
...envision something old-school, John Harvard’s-like, to match the decor of Memorial Hall and Annenberg and also to conjure up the specter of the old Harvard Union—now the Barker Center for the Humanities,” ruminates Kathleen E. McKee ’06, who participated in the discussion groups...
...reason I bring this up is because of the malicious specter of recruiting that has covered the beginning of this year like a dark shadow. As a Harvard senior, you are sort of expected to end up with a high-powered job—to be able to return to your five-year high school reunion, turn to the hot girl you never had the guts to talk to, drop the back-to-back bombs of “Yeah, I went to Harvard…no big deal,” and “Sure, I conducted some...