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...fifth conservative, Justice Anthony Kennedy, deciding case after case according to his own self-dramatizing muse. When Roberts was picked to be the nation's 17th Chief Justice, he talked a great deal about the need for the fractious court to find more coherence and common ground, to wage fewer ideological spats on the pages of unnecessary separate opinions. Some wondered if this was an offer on his part to split the difference between the rival camps, but no one wonders anymore. In two terms, Roberts has not taken a single position on a high-profile case that you would...
...wrong impression of Rwanda, they were part of this very tragic history, they carry a responsibility on their shoulders. So they don't want to accept the new and the good that has come out of this whole struggle. And it has been a struggle. We have had to wage a war, an armed struggle, we have had to go through the aftermath of the genocide and re-building the country, so many difficulties. And they don't want to accept this...
...human beings and companies are able to strive for higher goals.) Despite a few New Age-y concepts like "karmic capitalism" and a tendency to throw around phrases like "self-actualization," which will prove a little woo-woo for some readers, anyone who has ever been a wage slave will warm to Conley's compassion...
Thompson wasn't subtle in hitting points one and two: "My story is an American story," he began. He then proceeded to chart his life from teenage father of three and minimum-wage worker to lawyer, Watergate counsel, Senator, actor and now new father of two small kids. In this, the Tennessee Senator follows a well-worn rhetorical path...
Hoping to duplicate the electoral success of the Contract with America, Democrats ran on a platform of "Six for '06." As of late summer, two of the items--9/11 reforms and an increase in the minimum wage--had become law, while Bush had vetoed funding for stem-cell research. Proposals to reduce subsidies for oil companies and expand Pell grants remain tied up in conference committees; a bill to fix Medicare's prescription-drug problem has stalled in the Senate. Still, the GOP passed only two of the 11 Contract with America items in its first year back...