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...whenever a sitting one turned 70 and refused to retire. His infamous "court packing" scheme never passed, but he did get all nine nominees he floated during his three terms confirmed. (By contrast, John Tyler served up nine nominations from 1844 to 1845 - and in the worst track record of any President, scored with just one.) (See pictures of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens...
...depend on the coming of seasonal rains for their fertility. Historically, water-splashing has been a symbolic way of beseeching the divine to bring an end to scarcity and hasten a period of abundance. Never have the people of South China needed that abundance more than now, during the worst drought the area has seen in nearly a century...
Brown says 2008 "marked the best year ever for our home and enterprise-mobility segments and the worst year ever for our mobile-device business. There were really two stories behind one Motorola." (See pictures of the cell phone's history...
Gehrke's e-mail, which described the incident as "a very serious and malicious act," said that the Cambridge Fire Department called the mess "the worst they have ever seen...
...first major votes in Europe since the economic crisis struck, conservative and extreme-right parties swept the first round of Hungary's parliamentary elections on Sunday, toppling the ruling Hungarian Socialist Party and demonstrating how angry people are in one of the worst-hit countries on the continent...