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Senate minority leader Harry Reid is acting as if the election season never ended, setting up a war room of press aides whose job will be to respond rapidly to Republicans. Reid angered Republicans by announcing that the Democratic policy committee, an arm of the Senate Democrats, would usurp G.O.P.-led Senate committees by convening oversight hearings on issues--such as flawed prewar intelligence on Iraq--that Democrats feel have not been sufficiently probed. The policy committee normally promotes party positions on issues and has the statutory authority to hold hearings, but it can't subpoena witnesses. Frist spokesman...
...affair. In the 14th century, Prince Dom Pedro fell in love with the beautiful Spanish noblewoman Dona Inês. They lived with their two children until one January night in 1355, when Pedro's father, King Afonso IV, fearing that Inês' Spanish brothers were plotting to usurp his throne, had Inê murdered in the garden. When the inconsolable Dom Pedro became king in 1357, he had Inês' body put on the throne and forced the country's nobles to kiss her hand. The lovers remain entombed together in the monastery in Alcoba...
...pretty annoyed by thefacebook.com’s attempt to rip off CUcommunity’s idea and usurp our online community,” the message read. “I thought to myself, somebody ought to Google-Bomb The Facebook and knock them into Google obscurity, as if they never existed...
Offered the opportunity to exercise direct power--in the Philippines, in China, in Vietnam--America's military representatives on the ground always sought to foster domestic rule on the American national model. Whatever mistakes American commanders have made, even in Vietnam, that of trying to usurp power has not been one of them. Americans are incurably democratic, often to their disadvantage...
...When I was told by the Army that he was maneuvering to politically usurp my nomination, I visited with Clark," Cisneros says. "I said, 'I hear you're competing for the Southcom position also'--but he denied it. He told me, 'You're the nominee, and you're the one who's going to be selected, and I'm not trying to get that job.'" But within weeks, Clinton had nominated Clark. "I could have taken a 'Yes, I'm applying for the job,'" Cisneros says. "But when I confronted him, he was dishonest...