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...White House can't focus on everything, so the marching orders to Cabinet secretaries are usually to avoid making policy or making news. That's why Bush has preferred loyal, stay-the-course yes-men like HUD secretary Alphonso Jackson, a Texas crony who fiddled while the housing market burned, but knew enough to stay out of the spotlight until he got embroiled in an alleged political corruption scandal and recently announced his resignation. Meanwhile, the Cabinet itself, which used to serve as a presidential advisory board, no longer serves as much of anything. There hasn't been a truly...
...House reported 36 percent dissatisfied and 16 percent very dissatisfied with wireless, showing a majority unhappy with their Internet connections. President of the Harvard Computer Society (HCS) Joshua A. Kroll ’09, who lives in Adams, said he used a desktop computer most of the time to avoid wireless woes...
...Basically the wires in the wall, even though they can support higher speeds, are all tuned to a lower speed, we think, to avoid certain kinds of problems,” Kroll said. “We’re not completely sure why, but we know that this happens...
...serves partially as an extended ad for the Sony Playstation. Wyclef is a driver in a game played by a little kid, and the graphics are punctuated by floating cartoons and scenes of a woman crossing the street with her young daughter—ostensibly characters the kid should avoid hitting while driving. The best scenes in “Fast Car” are the ones in which Wyclef, singing in his billowing white shirt, is reminiscent of Michael Jackson in his “Will You Be There” video from “Free Willy...
...number of other member states agreed with his analysis. But Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel, whose relations have recently appeared strained, opposed MAP for Georgia and Ukraine. As the French President put it, he and Merkel "manifested publicly our perfect accord," which is grounded in their concern to avoid escalating tensions with Russia...