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ROBERT DORNAN Far-right Congressman is sent to his room following purple-faced anti-Clinton tantrum...
Neither, from all evidence, is Ryder. She sounds perfectly normal, if anyone is these days. "I want everyone to like me," she says. "I don't want to disappoint anyone. I hate not getting along, or being forced into a confrontation, or throwing what looks like a tantrum. The bottom line is, I'm like everyone else...
...that simple, says Cleta Deatherage Mitchell, the general counsel for the Term Limits Legal Institute and co-counsel in Bryant v. Hill. "Incumbents have such enormous advantages that it makes the whole notion of competitive elections a mockery," she says. "It almost takes a national temper tantrum to dislodge incumbents." Meanwhile, Rotunda points to the existence of one federal-term limit -- the two terms of the President. "The nation has survived, indeed flourished," he adds. Furthermore, there is another benefit to shorter terms. "When you have open seats, women and minorities have a better chance of getting elected...
...been found like Moses in the bulrushes, a miracle child: Salvador, Saviour. In part this did correspond to the truth. As Ian Gibson's fascinating catalog essay on Dali's early life makes clear, little Salvador was a horribly spoiled brat. Cosseted, deferred to, aware that a tantrum could get him anything he wanted, he grew up with serious delusions of creative omnipotence -- which, as time went by, coexisted with equally serious problems of sexual impotence, caused (or so he said) by a book with lurid illustrations of the effects of venereal disease that his father had shown him. Dali...
Potential tantrum defused. Gilbert went quietly to his demise thereafter, although he did drop-kick his racket into the net after the final point and mutter a few Gallic epithets. But Gangji, 41, one of the top professional umpires in tennis, chose to ignore this final frisson of petulance...