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...committee must vote now so that, if the plan passes, there will be time to readjust enrollment across the district. Delaying even a month would mean no plan could be implemented in time for the next school year...
Death on the Campaign Trail A plane crashes, a Democratic Senator dies and suddenly both parties must readjust their strategies for winning control of the Senate Josh Tyrangiel In 1990, a few weeks after Paul Wellstone - a wiry 5-ft. 5-in. ex-college professor, liberal ideologue, professional agitator and extreme long shot - unseated an incumbent Senator in an election no one thought he could win, he sat down for breakfast with one of the few Establishment politicians he genuinely admired. Fellow Minnesotan and former Vice President Walter Mondale congratulated Wellstone on the upset but warned that the aggressiveness Wellstone...
...life is simply more visible in the culture now. Chris Rock is out there saying "Everyone has a gay cousin." Gay life is now close to most people - people are having people come out to them at work all the time, and having to readjust their understanding of friendships and relationships. There is a general mainstreaming and accepting of gay life, especially when it involves settling down and having kids. I think those things make straight society more comfortable with the idea...
...exact opposite of Angel's: instead of making the mirror hollow to save weight, let it be thin--about 8 in. thick for an 8-m mirror, in contrast to the 5-m Hale's 26 in.--and counteract the resulting floppiness with computer-controlled supports that continually readjust its shape...
...stanch the bloodshed. Buried in the rubble was not just the peace process, it was also our dreamy view of what the world was becoming. Confronted again with pictures of flag-draped coffins and mutilated bodies, with the sounds of random gunfire and angry chants, the world had to readjust to the fact that not every problem is solvable, that the global tide of peace is not inexorable, and that progress does not inevitably make civilizations more civilized...