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This is the president I know and this is the presidency I know. Freshman year, in the Glee Club as usual, I attended my first, and last, Phi Beta Kappa ceremony and afterwards I introduced myself to Neil because I had just gotten the nod to interview him full time. I walked back with him to Mass Hall after the ceremony and we chatted about, of course, my summer plans. I was so excited. I wonder if he wanted to know about my undergraduate life in anything more than the details that are really abstractions that fill his mind when...
That's still the G.O.P.'s overriding view, though the party has agreed to provisions that put $100 billion in taxpayers' hands by the end of next year--a late nod to Democrats, who pushed to speed up relief in an effort to help fight off a recession. How that money will be distributed is an open question--probably either in a one-time check or via reduced income-tax withholding...
...days, a work of definitive analysis, you know? Like the big thinkers. Come up with an all-encompassing theory about the end of history, or the Whatsit Generation, or better yet, be Tocqueville--so that everyone in the Hamptons or on Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket this summer would nod in somber yet enthusiastic agreement that, yep, this is America, all right...
...money to sleep with him." Lucie said she laughed off the proposal, reminding her mother that her job was to pour drinks, light cigarettes and "discuss boring subjects like volcanoes." She confessed to Sophie that sometimes her customers spoke English with such thick accents, all she could do was nod. "I can't believe I am paid so much money just to pretend I am listening to them," she reported...
...dressed in a white V-neck sweater and cream-colored golf pants is flanked by two big-boned Nordic women. In halting English, he regales them with tales of how much his hotel accommodations cost on a recent trip. "Very much expensive," he repeats, as they dutifully nod. Across the room a powerfully built man in his 30s - displaying the latest Tokyo gangster style with his buzz cut and loud, metallic-colored tracksuit - sprawls on a couch, sleeping. A young blond sits by his side staring into space...