Ironically, that moment came the day after Terri Schiavo died.

具有讽刺意义的是，这一刻发生在特丽夏沃去世的第二天。

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The Supreme Court rejected an appeal to restore a Florida law specifically designed to keep a severely brain-damaged woman, Terri Schiavo, alive on a feeding tube.

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And for four years, Frist has never been able to escape the charge, fair or not, that when he wasn't doing the White House's bidding, he was busy pandering to the party's right-wing base (see Schiavo, Terri).

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