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...leads to his impeachment, needs no footnote from me for its relevance to recent White House history. True, the image of a Vice President with neither power nor notoriety may seem anachronistic, not to say utopian, these days (though at the end, Throttlebottom does say to Wintergreen, in a neat presentiment of Maureen Dowd, "You can be the President and I'll go back to Vice.") But the pertinence of the show's disdain for the motives of the President, the Congress and the press carried a wallop then, and retain a sting today...
...That's not what most people think, obviously. To judge by the antics of Representatives Cynthia McKinney, Patrick Kennedy, Katherine Harris and Duke Cunningham, being a member of Congress is a little like being James Bond, without the neat gadgets but also fewer bullets. Still: Car crashes! Fistfights! Luxury yachts, $2,800 dinners and wild card games! The prostitutes reportedly procured for Cunningham don't quite fit into the Bondian mold until you consider that at least Cunningham didn't pay for them himself...
...ball to senior Chris Mackey in left to end the seventh, preserving the three-run lead. Sophomore righthander Shawn Haviland, the staff ace, pitched scoreless eighth and ninth innings in relief, substituting live work for his usual midweek bullpen session. “It’s kind of neat; I don’t get to close many games,” Haviland said. “I love being out there in game action.”Harvard will hit the stretch run of its Ivy League schedule with a pair of home doubleheaders against Brown this weekend.And...
...used the B-Line once or twice and found it to be pretty neat,” said a prospective Class of ’10 member, Sam Purdy. “I was able to talk to [prefrosh] a little bit and I chatted with a current Harvard student who was on the B-Line facilitating things...
...Queen likes short meals and plain, wholesome British fare. After lunch (maximum: an hour and a quarter) come the public appearances-a ship to be launched, a hospital to be visited, an exhibition to be opened, a cornerstone to be laid-always accompanied with a gracious, impromptu and neat little speech...