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...reporters to avoid talking about it. But Feingold may not have had his colleagues in mind in advocating censure. Increasingly, with at least 10 senators considering a run at the presidency, the place dubbed the World?s Greatest Deliberative Body often seems like a political laboratory where potential candidates trot out different ideas that may have little chance of becoming law, but will help them with their parties' bases leading up to the 2008 primaries...
...feel the warmth of the sirocco, the wind that carries fine sand from the Sahara; smell the musty parchment of Cambiati's secret library; and taste the bitter elixirs peddled by the traveling troupe in the town's piazza. The action is broken into short chapters, making the plot trot along at a jaunty clip. Through Cambiati's alchemy and Archenti's reason, Frutkin examines the science of magic and the magic of science. He also keeps a few tricks for the elaborate finale, where the devil's advocate learns-- for better or worse--that there's much more...
...march swung right into main street for the last 10 blocks to City Hall, a surge pushed the front ranks into an uncomfortable speed, nearly a trot, jostled and patted from behind. Abernathy sensed an overly familiar, hostile edge in the cries of tribute--"We're glad you came to Memphis"--not long before loud pops turned anxious heads to listen for gunshots. Crashes after the bangs signaled instead the unmistakable sound of storefront windows being smashed along Beale and Main streets. Moans went up that something was wrong. Young marauders ran through overmatched marshals to attack storefronts ahead...
...stadiums than dancing to reggaeton.Perhaps I was spoiled by a finger-snapping father who pulled my sisters and I onto the dance-floor as soon as “Mac the Knife” began to play, by my party-loving mother who taught us each how to fox-trot at an early age, or by my grandparents, Kathryn and Arthur Murray, who spawned a generation of jitter-bugging, tango-lovin’ dancers during the Depression. The Murrays built a successful franchise of teaching studios and later brought ballroom to the masses through television, erasing the class signifiers that...
Zamore is working on an easy-to-build Shot Trot kit home, aiming for a price tag of $100 per sq. ft.--less than half the cost of a typical modern prefab house. Some affordable-housing advocates see it as an answer to the housing needs created by hurricanes. Zamore is thrilled. It's "high design that's affordable," he says, "not cheap...