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What Waxman does love to do is write laws, and he has been extraordinarily good at it. The walls of his Washington office are covered with framed pens that Presidents from Ronald Reagan to Bill Clinton used to sign the laws that Waxman helped make a reality: the Clean Air Act, generic-drug legislation, food- and toy-safety laws, and Medicare catastrophic coverage, to name a few. In 1994, as chairman of the health and environment subcommittee, he lined up the chief executives of the nation's biggest tobacco companies, had them raise their right hands and then shredded them...
...team that cannot score goals, and really didn’t have many even-strength goals,” Donato said. “For us to find a way to slow down their scoring and get three on the board for ourselves is a positive sign.” Even with three goals on the board, however, it was an assist that ranked as perhaps the biggest play of Harvard’s season. —Staff writer Daniel J. Rubin-Wills can be reached at drubin@fas.harvard.edu...
Many members of the audience can be heard laughing at the beginning of Richards’ tirade. However, there is an eerie quiet when he says the n-word for the first time—a clear sign that Richards has crossed a line—followed by gasps. In his rage, Richards misinterprets these cues from the crowd and repeats the word several times. One of the hecklers yells, “That was uncalled for.” Gradually, other people raise their voices in outrage...
...intention of "outsourcing" their Iraq policy, making it clear they will put their own stamp on any new U.S. plan rather than simply accept Baker's findings in toto. One close Administration adviser says White House officials "don't want to make appear as if they have to sign on to whatever the Baker commission comes up with - they may not agree with it in its entirety...
...record as the briefest of cease-fires: Less than an hour after a 6 a.m. Sunday truce was to go into effect between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants in the Gaza strip, three rockets went thudding into empty fields in Israel. Nobody was hurt, but it was a sign that once again, the Palestinian authorities can make all the promises they want, but they cannot bring Gaza?s armed militant groups to heel...