Word: tossed
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Forget everything you ever learned about the U.S. government. You can toss it all -- the separation of powers, the electoral college and even the pocket veto -- into the trash can. Then pick up P.J. O'Rourke's Parliament of Whores, a riotously funny and perceptive indictment of America's political system. You'll stop reading only when you stop laughing...
...Already this term the court had grazed the issue by upholding the Administration's ban on abortion counseling in federally funded clinics. But though Souter joined in that vote, his views on a total ban on abortion are unknown, and Sandra Day O'Connor has implied a reluctance to toss out Roe v. Wade altogether. Thus pressure is building on the President to nail down an antiabortion majority once and for all -- or, says a pro-life leader, "there'll be hell...
...years the court spared lawmakers the hard task of resolving difficult issues like abortion and school desegregation by imposing solutions in a constitutional wrapping. The new court is far more likely to toss such explosive matters back to state legislatures and Capitol Hill. "We're playing a rearguard action just trying to keep what we have," says California Democrat Don Edwards, who chairs the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights. "Congress has to do the work we had counted on the court...
...actually deserves it. Sure, everyone recognizes it as a straight steal from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but what final meaning does it impose? Sarandon thinks it's "the least compromising ending. You built this whole film to have these people not settle anymore, and then you'd toss them back into the system...
...defending his golden poppycock eggs? In fact that statement can be made without condescension, because swift and artful pacing is the novel's strongest quality. With his five earlier books, Boyd, 39, has gained an enviable reputation as an intellectual who wears his learning lightly, when he does not toss it aside completely. Stars and Bars was a smart send-up of both British and American roads to corruption. The New Confessions turned a dubious premise, a reprise of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's life, into a fluent book that is both romp and rumination. His new book...