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...only four years ago that Sen. Jim Bunning of Kentucky stood in front of a buoyant crowd of victorious Republicans at a Lincoln Day dinner in Louisville and broke down in tears about his friend Mitch McConnell. "I hope everybody here understands how much he stuck his neck out for me through thick and thin during that race last year," Bunning, 77, said pointing to Kentucky's senior senator, the number two Senate Republican at the time and the key architect of the GOP's astonishing ascendancy in the state over the previous decade. McConnell, 67, had indeed spent much...
...Rocky merge business operations in 2001, the latter was officially designated the "failing paper." After that, the Rocky tried to stage a comeback, even winning a few Pulitzer Prizes. But its circulation, like the Post's, dwindled. By the time Scripps pulled the plug, the subscriber rolls stood at 210,000, about even with the Post...
...think everyone in the country is disappointed with what has happened, especially the one million who stood on this square," says Roksolana (who declined to give her last name), one of the around 20 protesters who have set up camp there. "We are against everyone in power. We want transparent authorities who don't steal and an end to corruption. We'll stay as long as it takes...
...benefits.” The audience was amused and moved as they participated in the “rehearsal” and “performance,” evoking Bhabha’s remarks on the value of participation in communitarian artistic and humanistic pedagogy. Each participant stood with one arm raised as though he were blocking the moonlight, brought his hand to the heart, and opened his arms to the heavens. In the ballet, this passage invokes the birth of the ballerina; here, the cello accompaniment of Yo-Yo Ma and flickering candles invoked the birth...
...Here you can witness young women in high heels and minidresses play tug-of-war with modesty, as they alternately pull up on the top of the garment and down on the bottom, since there isn't enough fabric to do both at once. Modesty never stood a chance...