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A front-page WP story reports that federal investigators on the Wen Ho Lee case are now looking into the possibility that Lee passed nuclear secrets not to China, but to Taiwan.
Hours after the story appeared, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott held a press conference to brag about the GOP's freshly passed tax cut.
In addition to obsessing over problems with his wife, kids, and elderly mother, Soprano is depressed that the golden days of la cosa nostra have passed him by.
1996, the Congress passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act,
The device is not without its pitfalls however, as witness the following: Henry David's a Restaurant . The combination of the possessive and the apposition creates a solecism unless we assume that a word was omitted--perhaps Pub or Saloon . I have passed the sign several times in the past few years and recently noted that it had been cleaned and repainted, but the apostrophe remains.