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...Reid's strategy was "perfect," says Senator Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat, who adds that it "smoked out people on the merits of the proposition because we kept it small and simple. And I think the more we can do pieces of legislation that are easily explained and easily understood, the harder it is for [Republicans] to keep playing the game they're playing." (See "Fixing the Senate by Forcing Real Filibusters...
...engagement, eloquence and humor, in his dedication to nonviolence and in his sheer decency. He changed the conscience of a generation. It's hard to imagine how many young people's lives were touched by his work and his life. Both leave a permanent stamp on how history is understood and the conception of how a decent and honorable life should be lived...
...happy to see that the virtues of going abroad are now so commonly understood that the option does not need its own administrative advocate. The Harvard experience need not be confined to the Cambridge campus, and the creation of the OCRIO is yet another welcome acknowledgement of this notion...
...middle-aged people have." Nair says he was true to the quietness of the character, but used a light touch. In one scene, he gives his son's blonde, American girlfriend an appreciative once-over when he meets her. Nair says it wasn't in the script, but Khan understood what a little humor can do for a serious role. It was only a brief moment, but it cracked Ashoke's dignified veneer just slightly, letting the audience feel his vulnerability...
Another reason that Wakefield's spurious conclusions had so much staying power was that his study focused on gastrointestinal symptoms in children with autism. Many autistic children have chronic constipation, diarrhea, stomach pain and feeding issues--problems that remain poorly understood. Says autism advocate and blogger Katie Wright, a Wakefield loyalist: "He was the first doctor to take this concern seriously and research why so many autistic children develop severe GI disease...