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...It’s good to get a win in the first game,” Harvard coach John Tillman said. “The guys will have some confidence going in against Georgetown and use that confidence to move forward...
...High schoolers who identify as LGBT could definitely use a lot of outreach in knowing that their future college offers a welcoming community to people who identify with all kinds of genders and sexualities,” he said. “The onus is on the school and the school community to demonstrate that they are proactive in creating a safe environment...
...many American misdeeds, both real and imagined," he writes. "There are anti-American fires burning all across the globe; President Obama's words are like kindling to them." It's tempting to dismiss the section on foreign policy as an attempt to see how many different formulations Romney can use to profess his belief in American exceptionalism. But the theme is at the heart of the contrast Romney draws between himself and the president: while his prescriptions are designed to preserve American supremacy, Obama espouses American equivalence. "If the president accepts that America is in an irreversible state of decline...
...Barack Obama or Harry Reid or even a member of Congress. In fact, odds are you've never heard of Alan Frumin, the Senate parliamentarian. But when it comes to the complex budgetary procedure known as reconciliation, the filibuster-proof process which Democrats hope to use to make certain fixes to the Senate bill, Frumin is "the defense counsel, he's the prosecution, he's the judge, he's the jury and he's the hangman," says Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, the top Republican on the Budget Committee...
...Dove says the Dems' planned use of reconciliation is highly unusual. "I've never seen a two-bill strategy" where reconciliation is used to fix another piece of legislation, he says. "It's permissible, I've just never seen it." How busy Frumin will be will depend on how many amendments Republicans file. Dove's worst year for reconciliation was 1995, when he threw out more than 300 amendments, many related to a Medicaid block grant program Republicans were trying to ram through reconciliation. President Bill Clinton ended up vetoing that bill in part due to his opposition...