NOSES IN THE NEWS

The Boston Globe | April 17, 2005| | Copyright

THERE'S BEEN a wavelet of nose-thumbing in the news this month, a mini-surge generated mostly by Tom DeLay, whose valedictory to Terri Schiavo was a slam at the judges who declined Congress's invitation to intercede in her case. "We will look at an arrogant, out-of- control, unaccountable judiciary that thumbed their nose at Congress and the president," the House majority leader said after Schiavo died March 31. But DeLay wasn't the first one to poke that snooty idiom into the end-of-life debate: Ten days earlier, as the House Democrats considered their position on the Schiavo bill, ...

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