Some Republicans say that if they lose a special election on Feb. 12 to replace him, they could give up trying to hold the district, and redraw it to prop up Mr. Velella, taking in a narrow band of mostly Republican pockets of the Upper East Side.
This time it is hedge fund and private equity managers, such as Icahn, who are leading the charge as opposed to buyout kings Michael Milken and T. Boone Pickens Jr. and Icahn who two decades ago leveraged debt to take over companies, break them up and redraw the corporate map.
The council was informally headed by Prince Talleyrand. Louis XVIII took a large interest in the goings-on of the Congress of Vienna (set up to redraw the map of Europe after Napoleon's demise).
The tablets, according to André Parrot, "brought about a complete revision of the historical dating of the ancient Near East and provided more than 500 new place names, enough to redraw or even draw up the geographical map of the ancient world".
This impressive effort ended up redrawing the boundaries of the artist's compact canon: the Dutch museum scandalized the art world and outraged the Prado when it disputed the authorship of two of the Spanish museum's Bosch paintings; it also made two new attributions and restored a total of nine works, all of which are now on display for the first time.
Although at this stage it's not clear what the reformed employment tests will look like, nor how its approach might end up redrawing the line for workers.
Borders are fluid things; they help define our identities, and yet so often we use our identities to push up against borders and redraw them.
Mr. Houghton might have retired four years ago, but held off because of concerns that a pending redistricting plan might slice up his territory and redraw it in a way to make it vulnerable to a Democratic challenger.
Human-rights organisations say that government repression in response to terrorism has now deepened the sense of hogra and partly explains the flow of young men who have joined the armed Islamist groups fighting the state.President Liamine Zeroual's relentless efforts to redraw the political landscape have succeeded, up to a point, in diverting support from the FIS to the other Islamic parties.
