Word: downs
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The court may ultimately break down along these same partisan lines. Justice Scalia, the court's most conservative member, all but boasted in a short opinion that his side would have the votes in the end. That the stay was issued at all, he wrote, "suggests that a majority of...
The battle of the courts started with the Florida justices, and it's hard to overstate the boldness of their sweeping recount order. American courts have certainly been historic before: ordering public schools to admit blacks in the 1950s and helping oust President Richard M. Nixon by ordering him to...
It says so right here. We "bellow," says the Los Angeles Times. And "howl." We reach "fever pitch." Our "rage sharpens" our rhetoric, says the Washington Post. We "unleash our wrath," says the Baltimore Sun. I always trust the newspapers, of course, but I've searched myself for signs of...
A rubber bullet thwacked into Wael's shin. Thin and small for his age, he reached down and rubbed the stinging wound with one hand. In his other hand he held a stone. As Wael straightened to throw it, another rubber bullet smacked into his brow between the eyebrows. He...
And how. Earlier this fall Cadbury-Schweppes, the British owner of Dr Pepper and Seven-Up, spent $1.45 billion to gulp down juice-and-tea leader Snapple. "The ingredients in [carbonated] soft drinks are essentially the same as they've always been. You can only add a little bit of...