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...bill back to Bush's desk without modifying it for wavering Republicans, though House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has left the door open for changes. If the President vetoes the bill a hundred times between now and the 2008 elections the Democrats can portray the G.O.P. as voting against sick poor kids. If the G.O.P. caves, they can declare themselves the champions of children's health care and finally have a legislative accomplishment to boast about. Either way, they think they can't lose. "It's our hope that these members of Congress, when they hear from their constituents, that they...
...final scoreline was no aberration. This was not a case of the U.S. coming out flat or being hampered by poor refereeing. This was a clinical and ruthless annihilation by the samba-ing ladies of the south. If you don’t believe me, just look at the YouTube highlights of the game...
...thing as economic exclusivity in other countries. The Brazilian Soccer Federation doesn’t even give their women’s program enough money to schedule friendlies or training matches. Yet there, they are showing a global audience how to truly play the game. Our system does a poor job of finding “diamonds-in-the-rough.” And the future doesn’t look so kind to our women either...
...this legal differential mirrors a class differential. Most drug dealers are not recent economics graduates, and most freshly-minted MBAs do not consider a career in dealing alongside their offers from McKinsey & Co. and Goldman Sachs. They are made up mostly of desperately poor people—people for whom the inflated demand of pot represents a rare economic opportunity in a world where jobs are scarce and education scarcer...
Leo’s only poor effort of the day, a 25-yard punt that gave the Crimson possession on the Lehigh 36-yard line, led to a field goal just before halftime that left Harvard down 13-6 at the break...