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...their offices to quash a vote on a campaign-finance-reform bill in 1988, causing a sergeant at arms to carry Bob Packwood feetfirst to the Senate floor (after determining that Lowell Weicker was too heavy). The stunt pulled by Democrats in the Texas legislature last week was to avoid a vote on redistricting the state to create more Republican members of Congress...
...situation wasn't helped by the fact that Garner and his team at OHRA tried so hard to avoid looking like an occupying power. Holed up in headquarters at one of Saddam's opulent palaces, where their satellite-phone communications were spotty at best, they rarely ventured out. All too often, the American overseers found themselves relying on Western journalists to tell them what was happening in the city. When reconstruction officials did try to make their way around town, they went in a convoy of armed humvees, which was not exactly the friendly image that the U.S. wanted...
...city, as an example; the city has one of the largest historic centers in Europe, but the area has declined as pedestrian traffic has dropped and small businesses have shut down. Valencia is trying to bounce back with new cultural attractions (Time, May 26), but Madrid would prefer to avoid the whole cycle. That's not easily done. According to Vegara's research, while spending in the Madrid area increased more than 25% from 1995 to 1998, nearly all of that went to large businesses and malls. To compete, some smaller clothing shops now specialize in hand-tailoring and high...
...among us, why should we lose the right to express moral indignation at an act that, Podolsky admits, “turns [his] stomach?” Is it truly “hypocrisy” to acknowledge that Harvard has some undesirably selfish people, yet simultaneously desire to avoid perpetuating or worsening this state of affairs...
...Still, those were the terms set by the U.S., and the antiwar Europeans had no pragmatic alternative but to accept them. (Syria, the fifteenth Council member, simply recalled its ambassador and absented itself from the vote to as to avoid having to endorse Western occupation of an Arab land.) In their acceptance, however, at least some of the Europeans are quietly adopting an attitude of "you-broke-it, you-own-it" - an expectation that Washington's ill-starred efforts thus far to manage the postwar transition and the mounting danger of chaos may yet produce a costly lesson...