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...weaken Connecticut’s power in the Senate. So Sen. Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, has decided to let Lieberman keep his chairmanship of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. As that title might indicate, this is an impossibly important committee, which, according to Senate Rule XXV, deals with everything from United States Archives to the compensation and benefits of all U.S. employees. Reid and the Democrats did revoke Lieberman’s subcommittee chairmanship, but this amounted to what Sen. Patrick J. Leahy called a “slap on the wrist...

Author: By Robert G. King | Title: Politics as Usual | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

...should have had the game wrapped up before the half." -- Buffalo Bills quarterback Jim Kelly after his team lost Super Bowl XXV...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yes, and the Japanese Had a Pretty Good 1941 | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

...SUDDEN RISE of Chrislam had been traumatic equally to Rome and Mecca. Christianity was already reeling from John Paul XXV's eloquent but belated plea for contraception and the irrefutable proof in the New Dead Sea Scrolls that the Jesus of the Gospels was a composite of at least three persons. Meanwhile the Muslim world had lost much of its economic power when the Cold Fusion breakthrough, after the fiasco of its premature announcement, had brought the Oil Age to a sudden end. The time had been ripe for a new religion embodying, as even its severest critics admitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hammer Of God | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

Super Bowl XXV...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NHL Standings | 1/30/1991 | See Source »

...Giants 15, San Francisco 13 Super Bowl XXV...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 1/23/1991 | See Source »

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