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...party strategist. A degree of organization is necessary to run a successful campaign for any office, but Rawlins' inflated sense of self-importance was evident in the countless news items and word-of-mouth reports regarding the sophisticated War Room she employed to win that glorious office in the basement of Holworthy...
Seven undergraduates met in the basement of Lowell Hall last night to discuss a new magazine that will focus on the lives of pre-medical students at the College...
...almost hard to remember what the House Speaker was before Gingrich--a back-room fellow, the big man who sat in the House basement and drank bourbon and branch, kept a card file of favors given and received, scores to be settled in the private pathways of the Capitol. He still gets a big car and a big staff and is third in line to the presidency, but his job has always been a perch carved out of persuasion as much as power, especially when the vote is close...
...passing out money or tax breaks--to subsidize activities ranging from shipbuilding to coal research, from the sale of U.S.-made weapons overseas to peanut farming. Washington helps buy crop insurance for tobacco, builds roads into national forests for the timber industry, sells minerals on public lands at bargain-basement rates and offers cut-rate electricity for businesses like casinos. The Feds help shippers that use inland waterways and bail out American banks with loans gone bad in foreign countries. It's the U.S. government's cafeteria of corporate welfare, and it's draining more than a third...
...great thing about the beginning of our relationship was that it was always full of surprises," Brian said. "Probably one of the most romantic things that has happened is Valentine's Day our freshman year. I spent the whole day in the basement of Mower baking Jeanne this cake in the shape of a heart. I had planned to let Jeanne find it in my fridge after the Kroks concert, but she told me early that evening that she didn't feel like eating. I kept suggesting though, that we go back to my room. I thought for sure that...