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Against Brown, however, Lady Luck dealt the Crimson a significantly better hand. On a number of occasions, the puck bounced precisely Harvard's way, and two of those times, Botterill made sure the Crimson capitalized...
Eventually Bush agreed to most of what Sadler wanted. If he hadn't, Bush admits, Sadler wouldn't have passed his bill. "He's powerful," says Bush. "There's a certain practicality to the political world. You play the hand you're dealt...
Remember, this attack on Bow Street isn't a random blow dealt by an anonymous member of corporate America. This comes from our little piece of corporate America; let's claim our ownership, once...
...specificity and detail has been John McCain. For him, the campaign has been a seat-of-the-pants operation, not only in its mechanics but also in its ideas. He has mostly forsaken large-scale policy speeches in favor of town-hall Q.s and A.s, where issues can be dealt with in catchphrases. His few attempts at concreteness tend to collapse in self-contradiction. He wants to use the budget surplus to shore up Social Security and preserve it for future generations; at the same time, he would undermine it by letting workers deposit part of their payroll taxes...
What is most troubling is the concept of "the race card." Race is not something that can be shuffled and dealt like a game of Go Fish. To bring up race in this context diminishes the saliency of the issue. We live in a society in which race is still a real and immediate problem. Of course there are naysayers, who respond that we now live in a color-blind society in which issues of identity, most specifically race and ethnicity, are no longer relevant...