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...veritable death valley. In town after town, schools have been boarded up, and the only preserved building is the American Legion post. These parts have so emptied that a turtle crossing the street has a decent shot at getting to the other side uninterrupted. Entire city blocks sell for $100 at sheriff's auctions, only to be abandoned, tax delinquent and on the block again a few years later...
...filibusters did nothing to improve the atmosphere, is every bit as testy. Senate majority leader Bill Frist gave a speech last week warning Democrats that the so-called nuclear option--the proposal to change Senate rules to prevent filibusters of judicial nominees--remained an option if Democrats sought to block Bush's eventual choice. The Democrats, meanwhile, were doing some early saber rattling of their own. Within hours of O'Connor's resignation, Senator Kennedy called a press conference to warn that if Bush chose a nominee who "threatens to roll back the rights and freedoms of the American people...
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Abrams rose to national prominence as an attorney for the New York Times in the 1971 Pentagon Papers case, in which the Nixon administration sought to block the Gray Lady from printing a classified report on the Vietnam War. The Times won the case—in part, according to Abrams, because Nixon’s lawyer, Solicitor General Erwin Griswold, performed “lamely” in front of the Supreme Court. (Griswold, a former Harvard Law School dean, will go down in the history books for being on the wrong side of the high court?...
When one enters the World Bank’s main building, the first thing that makes an impression is the size of the place. Covering an entire city block, the MC building is a veritable palace of glass and concrete in the heart of Washington, a few blocks from the White House. The main atrium, which spans all 13 flights of stairs, illuminates an open area of marble flooring the size of a football field that plays host to a veritable rainforest of flowering exotic plants and a waterfall as well as permanent sculptures and traveling art exhibits. In each...