Word: requesting
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...back working in the city. While they will turn out to vote on election day, no one is quite sure what will happen with the out-of-town vote, much of it African-American. This week, in fact, the courts in Louisiana are expected to rule on a request by several African-American state legislators-all Democrats-to force the release of a highly coveted FEMA list the Louisiana attorney general has with the locations of evacuees, their emails and phone numbers. "Nagin created the problem for himself with white voters in Uptown whom he insulted," says Pinsonat...
...like to go speak on your behalf and on behalf of the boat? which of course made me cry, it was like a movie. She?s a close friend and someone I look to for guidance in my life, spiritually and in many ways, and I knew that her request was telling me ?you need to stay on the boat.? Because I didn?t know how I would react. I grew up in New York. I didn?t have parents to come out to. I?ve never faced that anger and bigotry. I just wasn?t prepared. So when people...
...that they eventually be given to the museum. When Altmann first asserted her claim for restitution in 1998, Viennese officials argued that Austria had honored the original owner's intent. But Altmann said that the paintings rightfully still belonged to her family and that when her aunt made her "request," she could not have imagined that they would end up in the hands of a government that participated in the Holocaust. In 1998 Altmann wrote to an advisory board of the government and offered to sell Austria the portrait if they returned other paintings to her. She says she never...
...decades, Bush plans to use his State of the Union address on Jan. 31 to portray himself as, well, thrifty. He will talk about the need to rein in programs like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, and he'll tout the modest budget cuts that Congress passed at his request last year. His staff wants to make "restraining spending" a defining Bush characteristic, along with spreading democracy around the world and prosecuting the war on terrorism...
Warshauer wanted to start up a poker club at Harvard last year, but said that his request did not get approved because the City of Cambridge does not allow “games of chance...