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...Dismayingly, but perhaps unsurprisingly, Labor’s Ehud Barak rejected calls from some of his senior party members not to join a coalition that included Lieberman. Worse, prior to the vote, he sought to outflank Lieberman in belligerence by claiming that Lieberman talks the talk but does not walk the walk. “Lieberman,” he said, “is strong in words and not in deeds. I do not know how many times, if ever, he held a rifle and shot anyone.” Barak believes that he—and not Lieberman?...
...like Alice Paul used hunger strikes in the early 20th century to rattle President Woodrow Wilson, who denounced such tactics as appalling and "unladylike," though he later buckled amid a public outcry over the forced feeding of the protesters and agreed to support the 19th Amendment granting women the vote. During World War II, a group of conscientious objectors at Connecticut's Danbury prison staged a 135-day strike against segregated dining. As a result, Danbury became the first federal facility with integrated meals...
...determine how constitutional language was understood by the framers who proposed it. When it came time for Souter's name to go before the U.S. Senate, the first part of Bush's gamble paid off - there was no bruising confirmation fight. He won Senate approval by a vote of 90-9. But once Souter was on the court, it wasn't long before it became obvious that he couldn't be counted on to solidify an ever emerging but never quite stable conservative majority anchored at the time by Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Antonin Scalia, and often supported...
...Souter was one of the four dissenters in Bush v. Gore, the case that allowed Florida to shut down the recount in that year's presidential election. Three years later he joined the six-vote majority that struck down laws forbidding gay sex. Two years after that he upheld the right of government to seize private property to encourage economic development...
...city was once just another of the squat and unpretentious capitals that dot Central America - almost all serviced by aging Bluebird buses, handed-down to the countries by U.S. school districts looking to dump their old fleets for newer models of transport. See pictures from Panama's historic 2006 vote on the canal...