Mime Night, when the team hired mimes to re-enact close plays and called it Mime-o-Vision, did not go over well.
Oceana, an ocean conservation group, is suing the National Marine Fisheries Service to force the agency to enact closer monitoring of and stricter limits on the number of turtles that can be caught and killed by the Gulf of Mexico and southeast Atlantic shrimping industry.
And in many countries, most notably the United States, the chances of getting such a tax enacted seem close to nil.
But Representative Bill Thomas, Republican of California, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, has been skeptical about the chances of getting any tax legislation enacted so close to Election Day.
While the NFIP has protected lives and saved billions of dollars in damage since Congress enacted it close to 50 years ago, it has suffered from policy neglect and political interference.
In his comedic yet touching "Pina Jackson in Mercemorium" (part of the citywide festival ThinkSwiss: Genève Meets New York), the zany, virtuosic Foofwa D'Imobilité, a former Cunningham dancer now in Geneva, enacts something close to that fantasy.
Even without big Republican gains, Congress is going to be highly reluctant to enact anything close to the President's hard-left agenda.
When it was enacted, China was close to the birth-ratio standard for most societies: 103 to 107 boys for every 100 girls.
Under the plan he offered along with Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, the special counsel would be required to issue a final report within 60 days of the measure's being enacted and to close the office 45 days later.
A federal statute, the Electoral Count Act, enacted after the close 1876 HayesTilden Presidential election, specifies that, after States have tried to resolve disputes (through "judicial" or other means), Congress is the body primarily authorized to resolve remaining disputes.
