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...early '70s, the visual and verbal vocabulary of the strip was one of the only languages that kept both the younger and older generation fluent with each other. Schulz's phrase "security blanket," and his ideas about that most American of concepts, happiness, found their way into Webster's dictionary and "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations." The names and subversive attributes of his characters filtered into the counterculture of the '60s; the Grateful Dead's defiantly grubby organist, Ron McKernan, was nicknamed Pig Pen; another San Francisco rock band that formed in 1966 called itself Sopwith Camel. As American soldiers stenciled...
...arguments that most legal scholars had predicted wouldn't come. It was quite a sight, as warring parties had to cram together in the 400-seat hall. (Court personnel said they hadn't seen Friday's frantic demand for seats since 1989, when a high-profile abortion case, Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, was argued.) Senator Edward Kennedy sat uncomfortably next to Barbara Olson, wife of Bush lawyer Theodore Olson and author of Hell to Pay, a vituperative book about Kennedy's new colleague Hillary Rodham Clinton. Gore adviser Warren Christopher was there, and so was Clinton hater Bob Barr...
...schedule yet. But they may have a few days to play with: State Senate leader John McKay insisted this week that his experts had told him the 16th, not the 12th, was the true brick wall for the naming of Florida's electors. But today Republican state senator Daniel Webster pegged Wednesday again: If there is no finality, he said, we will bring finality on the 13th...
...bills when the party temporarily holds a Senate majority between Jan. 3, when the new congress takes office, and Jan. 20, when the president is inaugurated. Kerry noted that the Democrats decided to act like "statespeople." There's a word that hasn't been needed in the past month. Webster's Dictionary defines "statesman" in part as "one who exercises leadership wisely and without narrow partisanship in the general interest." Could there possibly be any better to term to describe how the two presidential aspirants have not acted...
...second round, Jantzen easily handled Cornell's Gabe Webster...