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...think that in the second half we gave up too much,” coach Sue Caples said. “And they were awarded some calls, on fouls, that were just outside the circle, so the umpire must have thought they were flagrant fouls...
...breach of the Constitution and a perilous expansion of federal power. Along with Madison, he recruited the poet Philip Freneau to launch an opposition paper called the National Gazette. To subsidize the paper covertly, he hired Freneau as a State Department translator. Hamilton was shocked by such flagrant disloyalty from a member of Washington's Cabinet, especially when Freneau began to mount withering assaults on Hamilton and even Washington. Never one to suffer in silence, Hamilton retaliated in a blizzard of newspaper articles published under Roman pseudonyms. The backbiting between Hamilton and Jefferson grew so acrimonious that Washington...
...decades of disdain from the nation's moderate media and political establishment. In retrospect, the movement provided a necessary corrective for the slowly corroding industrial-age liberalism favored by the Democrats who controlled Congress. Reagan's followers were so eager for success that they were willing to tolerate some flagrant inconsistencies in his governance. His big 1981 tax cut was followed by two years of large, if undramatized, tax increases. He didn't shrink the size of the government (Bill Clinton was the only recent President to do that). Reagan was a champion of the religious right, but rarely attended...
...decades of disdain from the nation's moderate media and political establishment. In retrospect, the movement provided a necessary corrective for the slowly corroding industrial-age liberalism favored by the Democrats who controlled Congress. Reagan's followers were so eager for success that they were willing to tolerate some flagrant inconsistencies in his governance. His big 1981 tax cut was followed by two years of large, if undramatized, tax increases. He didn't shrink the size of the government (Bill Clinton was the only recent President to do that). Reagan was a champion of the religious right, but rarely attended...
...white friends said, 'Why do you want to do that? It was hundreds of years ago.'" So instead Blackman decided to turn black history on its head, inventing a country that harks back to the civil rights movement in the U.S. and apartheid in South Africa, with flagrant police brutality, pitched battles over integrated education and segregated health services. But the novel's ID cards, casual racial abuse and media stereotyping are topical in Britain today. "Especially with the rhetoric you get about asylum seekers," says Blackman. In seeking to get beneath the skin of terrorism, she is confronting...