Word: making
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...much to ask for voters to have sufficient passion to make a hole in a piece of perforated cardboard...
...although this election's jaw-droppingly close margin seems to be a particularly compelling argument for excluding Ellis, Gottlieb argues it doesn't really make any difference. "Even if this had been a landslide, you don't have a candidate's relative reporting on an election." Interestingly, according to Tuesday's Washington Post, Ellis himself seemed to agree just last year, when he resigned from his position as a political reporter at the Boston Globe. "I am loyal to my cousin.... I put that loyalty ahead of my loyalty to anyone else outside my immediate family. That being the case...
...citizens, gubernatorial appointees and attorneys presents three judges' names to the governor, who chooses one. In other words, a governor's appointments are more or less at the mercy of that independent committee. And while its Democratic makeup and what its reputation for what conservatives call "judicial activism" may make the Court look liberal on paper, these Justices are no bleeding hearts...
...While the Israelis have the sophisticated military and intelligence capacity to systematically pick off Palestinian militia leaders, that only tends to make the ground even more fertile for the gunmen. After all, last Thursday's strike may have eliminated a key Fatah militia leader, but it also killed two middle-aged women bystanders. Israel protests that the gunmen are hiding behind civilians, but that's an argument it can't win in the eyes of a Palestinian population that sees itself as resisting occupation, or in the eyes of an international community that questions Israel's continued presence...
...treaty, which requires industrialized nations to dramatically reduce emissions from the use of oil, coal and other fossil fuels. Kyoto emerged out of concern that the planet's warming - 1998 was the hottest year on record, and 1999 wasn't far behind - will produce catastrophic climatic effects that will make recent "wild weather" patterns look mild by comparison...