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It’s getting to seem like you can’t listen to analysis of this year’s presidential field without hearing the same tiresome comparison of the Democratic and Republican parties’ strengths: Democrats are strong on domestic issues, they say, but Republicans are strong on foreign policy. In this framework, for a Democrat to win he would need to keep the focus of the race on issues like jobs, the economy and Social Security. And if President Bush wants to be reelected, he’ll have to remind people that he?...
Neither of the two California natives, who have known each other since competing side-by-side on the state’s women’s team in 1994, wanted to be the one forced to listen to her longtime friend gloat about her team’s win in the most important contest held during the regular season...
...week his flamboyant predecessor at Tyco, a sprawling $37 billion conglomerate, was sitting through his trial in a Manhattan courtroom on charges of looting the company of $600 million. Kozlowski, whose extravagance became legendary after he left Tyco in June 2002--remember the $6,000 shower curtain?--had to listen as former assistant Mary Murphy admitted that she had been having an affair with him, even as she agreed to his requests to cover his personal expenses with company money...
...that Adams had something resembling a gong in its dining hall, but no one knows whether it was more than a round, bronze symbol. The gong had not been heard to ring since Adams’ losing war with Pforzheimer House, now more than a decade in the past. Listen closely to the chatter in Mather’s dingy halls of power: those who once talked of earth-shaking malletted tones now talk of “gong-related program activities.” Forget Kirkland—did any Houses in the region have functioning gongs ready...
...simply couldn’t pass by. We entered to the tune of “Welcome to Our World of Toys,” the background buzz provided by the jingling and commotion of toys. Once upstairs, we were inevitably drawn to the story-time corner to listen to Mother Goose tell of the triumphs of Thomas the train car. The mystery, the magic, the charm, the glee: It was like nothing else in this world, because FAO Schwarz was, indeed, a world of its own. A world of toys, a world of agelessness, a world of no worries...