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Dartmouth coach Mark Hudak noted that his team had to make a number of changes in the absence of Apps and Piper. Senior Lydia Wheatley played her normal amount after limited action while recovering from an injury in the ECAC tournament. Hudak also shifted defensemen to the forward position to fill in the gaps...
...unhappy family back home to Austin. She has continued to advise the President on an ad hoc, part-time basis. Now she has begun a gradual re-entry into the whirlwind of full-time presidential politics. Her first conspicuous move is the launch this week of Ten Minutes from Normal, a memoir of a decade spent as George W. Bush's spokeswoman and alter ego. For the White House, the blitz of publicity accompanying the book's publication couldn't come at a better time. Bush aides are counting on Hughes' hagiographic portrait of the President as a near flawless...
Readers looking for West Wing intrigue will be disappointed by the Hughes book; when the subject is the President or Hughes' colleagues in the Administration, Ten Minutes from Normal is all kiss and no tell. Bush is presented as "humble," "wonderful," "tough-minded," "decent and thoughtful," with a "laserlike ability to distill an issue to its core" and "a knack for provoking discussion." Even his tendency to mangle words is a sign, to Hughes, of a "highly intelligent" mind outpacing a sluggish tongue. Occasionally--and this is as critical as it gets--her boss can be "impatient" and "challenging...
...separate plots by Islamist terrorists in the past decade, police commissioner Ray Kelly told Congress at a hearing last fall. Yet budget cutbacks have left 5,000 fewer police in the city than there were in 1999. And Kelly has pulled 1,000 of the remaining cops off normal duty to work on terrorism prevention. "We're doing more with less in many ways. There's an opportunity cost," Kelly says. "People who were doing homicide are now doing terrorism." New York City estimates its counter-terrorism needs at $900 million, he says. To date, it has been awarded about...
...students were just as likely to dream about a crush as they were about a normal person. The emotional attachment made no difference in how often they appeared in the dreams. Suppression was the only main difference,” Wegner said...