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...November 19, 1997, state lawmakers approveda bill that would prove to be a thorn in Watson'sside. It required police commissioners to seekunion approval before undertaking large-scalerestructuring...
...considered it to be possible that he was delivering a message from the central administration that it was open to resolving Peter's case if we chose to follow this procedure. The point is as simple as the Uncle Remus story about Brer Rabbit and the briar patch. Each thorn along the procedural way a prick to spark consciousness in a new Harvard audience, each a stopping point along our way toward truth and justice and a stage to tell our story...
...ahead by as many as 13 points, but both camps say the gap has closed. And although Murray has more money, Smith's followers, whom she refers to as "Linda's army," are generally more rabid. Plus, she has a history of coming from behind. There's also the thorn-in-the-side-of-the-party factor, which in distant Washington State could work in her favor. Her D.C. colleagues can't stand her. "She's impossible to deal with. She's nuts. Totally bonkers," says a senior House Republican. That's probably because she won't join the boys...
...fact, all the horrors of the past decade in places like the former Yugoslavia would have been treated as good news during the cold war. Any trouble in the Evil Empire was good news for us. If there was a thorn in the side of the Kremlin, we were on the side of the thorn in the side. While the cold war was going on, we actually rooted for droughts, so long as they were behind the Iron Curtain. A drought causes food shortages that could divert military spending or even destabilize the government. I personally drew the line...
...best jazz singing is turning up in the pop-record racks. Nineteen-year-old Esthero, singer of a Toronto trip-hop duo that bears her name, is the newest member of the school of so-called blue-groove vocalists (it includes Skye Edwards of Morcheeba and Tracey Thorn of Everything but the Girl), who use the delivery and seductive lilt of jazz to bring warmth to chilly avant-garde pop. Esthero's debut with her co-writer and producer, Doc (Martin McKinney), weaves hip-hop, drum and bass, funk and ska into tunes full of emotional intensity. Doc controls this...