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...third straight day, about 230,000 federal employees were forced to stay home - a stoppage that Office of Personnel Management director John Berry has said costs taxpayers an estimated $100 million per day in labor that workers are unable to perform. With forecasts darkening on Tuesday, House majority leader Steny Hoyer canceled votes for the rest of the week, while the Senate called off votes slated for Wednesday. For what might be the first time ever, says Fred Beuttler, the House's deputy historian, the chamber's cafeteria was forced to close. Major hearings on Capitol Hill were postponed, including...
...calculation runs straight through public opinion polls. A survey completed Monday by the Washington Post and ABC News found than nearly 6 in 10 Americans - including 56% of independents - believe the Republicans are not doing enough to forge a compromise on important issues. By contrast, just 45% of Americans think Obama is doing too little. In that spread, lies a distinct, potential political advantage for the President...
This, Green goes on to say, is a barrier that the industry must break through. “Most films like ours go straight to DVD,” says Green...
...cans of the stuff from an Iraqi army soldier at the very reasonable price of $5 per can. There was some bottled whiskey on hand, too. They mixed the whiskey in an empty liter water bottle with some Rip-Its, a carbonated energy drink. Green liked his whiskey straight. Over several hands of cards, they got drunk as they talked about all the things they usually talked about. Girls, cars, music, sports, how much they hated this place, how much they hated hadj...
Specialist James Barker described the paradoxical yet typical swings combat-weary soldiers have between thinking they are doomed and thinking they are invincible. "I knew I was going to die, it was just a matter of time, so I just didn't care. I would run straight at somebody shooting at me instead of taking cover. That was my mentality: I'm already dead so, f___ it, what can anybody do to me? I'd gotten shot at so many times and blown up so many times, and hadn't taken a scratch that it's like...