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...pretty indisputable. I taught constitutional law for ten years, nobody is more mindful of the importance of the courts, although I'm also mindful of the limits of the courts. One of the problems for the Democratic Party is we've been overly reliant on the courts to yank us out of some of our electoral problems. I have confidence we can win elections...
...Fitch has the right to sell whatever it wants, and young women are more than capable of deciding for themselves what is self-degrading and what is humorously self-expressive. The pressure that these 23 teenage “girl-cotters” recently created has caused Abercrombie to yank some of its more “creative” Attitude Tees from its shelves, including the notorious “Who Needs Brains When You Have These?” shirt. (Guess where the slogan was located on the garment.) Of course, the “girl-cotters?...
...Miers in a live interview with Matt Lauer of NBC's "Today" show at a Habitat for Humanity site in Louisiana, with Laura Bush saying that the nominee is "very deliberate and thoughtful, and will bring dignity to wherever she goes." Republicans say there is no chance Bush will yank the Miers nomination of his own accord. But some influential Republicans said there is a small chance she will survey the flak ahead and decide to withdraw...
...woke up at seven every morning to prepare a schedule for Matt and his running mate, Clay T. Capp ’06. He organized an army of supporters to escort Matt and Clay around the dorms for door-knocking and quick chats, ordering each escort to politely yank him out should Matt, who likes to talk, spend more than five minutes in one place...
...American cousins. This attitude is fun. And it makes us squirm. But attitude is not insight. We leave Stuff Happens thinking that the chief defect of American politics is its lack of sly and worldly Oxbridge graduates of the kind serving Blair. At one point in the play, a Yank says to a British official that 9/11 forever changed America. Yes, he replies, it made it more stupid. Maybe so. But something more than stupidity made the Iraq tragedy. About what that might be, David Hare, trafficker in caricature, hasn't a clue. --By Richard Schickel