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Wittes writes that , in recent years , " the process has changed fundamentally and for the worse , " and he condemns " activists and senators who willingly trumpet gross distortions of the nominee 's record , misleading insinuations about his or her character , and sometimes even outright lies . The names remain secret , but the U.N. has separately imposed sanctions on four individuals suspected of war crimes : a high-ranking government official , a general , a militia chief and one rebel leader . " These days , he occasionally turns at the sound of a blaring horn to see a stranger raising a middle finger at him.He walks into a Herndon diner called Amphora , his secret gathering spot today , a one-block stroll to where a crowd of Latino day laborers has already gathered to wait for potential employers . They are asking the court not only to rule in their favor , but to limit - - or , possibly , overrule - - recent constitutional decisions that have drawn heavy fire from the right . Southern racists , worried that new judges might rule against them , wanted an opportunity to ferret out potential opponents.Wittes argues that a return to the pre - Brown process , which would mean " either eliminating - - or at least limiting - - live testimony of nominees at their hearings , " would " remove the central event " from what is now " an embarrassing spectacle that yields minimal information " about the nominees . Addressing for the first time a Congress controlled by the other party , Bush challenged Democrats to " show our enemies abroad that we are united in the goal of victory " and warned that the consequences of failure in Iraq " would be grievous and far-reaching . He would prefer to call Democrats " less principled " rather than bigoted , based on his analysis of data collected in a recent online experiment that he conducted with The Washington Post and washingtonpost.com.As reported in this column a few weeks ago , the study found that people were less likely to give extended aid to black Hurricane Katrina victims than to white ones . " The justices have taken a decreasing number of cases in recent years , and this term , which will end this summer , is likely to continue that trend.Sometimes the court 's decisions are dramatic , such as 2005 's Roper v. Simmons , which forbade the execution of those who were younger than 18 at the time of their crimes . boys in reading is equivalent to 1.5 years of schooling , and though men continue to be over-represented in college level science and engineering , girls are now more likely to go to college and persist in earning a degree , " Dee said in a recent working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.Dee found that assigning boys to male teachers and girls to female instructors " significantly improves the achievement of both girls and boys as well as teacher perceptions of student performance and student engagement with the teacher 's subject . The only problem was that all of Goddard 's other sources indicated that immigrant smuggling was still booming in Arizona.So on Sept. 21 , Goddard expanded the program , issuing a warrant blocking all Western Union money transfers of $ 500 and above from 26 states with a significant population of illegal immigrants to a group of Western Union outlets in the northern Mexican state of Sonora . He left the house alone and is ready to log a few more hours on a volunteer mission : striving to rid Herndon of all undocumented workers and to " do our part to help discourage illegal aliens from crossing the Mexican border and creating problems for towns like ours . Many in this chamber understand that America must not fail in Iraq - - because you understand that the consequences of failure would be grievous and far-reaching .