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McKean said that throughout the exchange, he heard someone laughing in the background...
...student held a radio protected from the downpour with a large black plastic bag. A Valentine's Day mix--featuring Nat King Cole and the Beatles--provided cheerful background music...
...format uncharacteristic of standard departmental introductory courses. Surely The Crimson does not wish to propose a program whereby a student would wander from survey course to survey course in hopes of achieving an appropriate "distribution." We will assume that the Crimson meant to advocate the opportunity for students with background in a field akin to one of the Cores to explore upper-level departmental coursework remote from their concentration in satisfaction of graduation requirements. In such cases, cross-listing departmental courses would be an appropriate route. For the majority of students, however, the Core effectively blends methods of thinking with...
...tracked with equal intensity. Last week, while Bush displayed his talents in a very public way--announcing new legislation to help the disabled, touring a school with former adversary Joe Lieberman, chatting up the minister while attending services at an African-American church--his Vice President was in the background, less visible but no less crucial to the workings of the new Administration. As a close look at his emerging schedule shows, "Big Time" Cheney's influence is vast, his portfolio unprecedented--just the way his boss wants...
Inside Washington's chatterbox culture, Cheney's silence and trademark smirk make people nervous. In his office a picture from his Gulf War days captures the perfect Cheney pose--former President Bush and General Colin Powell standing in the foreground while Cheney lurks in the background with what an aide calls his "cockeyed look," his shoulders hunched and a slanted, slightly menacing smile on his face. Since his days as Gerald Ford's chief of staff and, later, as second-ranking Republican in the House, that look has invited all manner of interpretations. Returning from White House meetings last week...