Word: trent
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...then 98, collapsed on the Senate floor. But now, Frist, 50, is beginning a different kind of rescue mission, one that he may not be fully equipped to handle. Congress starts a new session this week, and the patient before Frist is his own party, still reeling from the Trent Lott debacle...
...Senator Trent Lott’s calamitous experience last month illustrates the extent to which race—and speaking about race—still poses a dark, incendiary threat in American life. At issue in Lott’s case, of course, was his wistful allusion to a time when the races were separate, and when real feelings were harbored but not openly expressed, a time when what we now call “hate speech” showed itself infrequently in the “marketplace of ideas...
Just Married, like most films of its genre, begins by touching on cliched yet interesting social issues, only to resolve them as quickly and sloppily as Trent Lott fleeing a Jay-Z concert. Writer Sam Harper, who also penned the similarly-lame kiddie flick Rookie of the Year, embroils his characters in a classist struggle that pits Sarah’s crusty upbringing against Tom’s small-time bachelor-pad existence. Love, however, conquers all, as it usually does in the hearts of Beverly Hills society girls raised to believe that “marriage is an investment...
...Pickering's nomination was defeated 10-9 by the Senate judiciary committee last year, making his renomination something of a surprise. Why would the Bush White House - the Republicans still stinging from charges of racism after Trent Lott's comments and subsequent resignation as majority leader - risk so much political capital on what could be a damaging nomination? One word: Respect...
...insisting on equitable treatment for their nominees, now and in the future." Rekindling the Pickering nomination also allows the Republicans to "bring the race issue back into a comfortable space for them," says Gregory Magarian, an associate constitutional law professor at Villanova University School of Law. "After the Trent Lott disaster, they want to get control of the race issue before it's defined for them by outside forces," i.e. the Democrats...