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...documents were released by the White House in response to a request from the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is considering the nomination of Anthony Lake to be the new CIA director. The giant pile of data did achieve its ostensible purpose: it showed that Lake was not a party to the unseemly fund-raising operation. But in making the case for Lake, the White House damaged itself in the larger battle to rise above the fund-raising scandals that are swamping it. Press secretary Mike McCurry conceded that at times the NSC's "good, sound counsel" was ignored, a reflection...
...last possible add-drop dates for classes approach, a few still prowl the aisles at the Coop--some students are scrambling to buy books for classes they've only just joined, some are returning piles of dull novels after giving up on a course and then there are some who visit the bookstore again and again in order to draw out the pain of watching money trickle into the Coop's cavernous pockets. I must confess to belong to this last group of students. I buy only a couple of books at a time, hoping that perhaps next time there...
Students returning to the third floor after the evacuation discovered a pile of ashes outside room 302, residents said...
...Sundays they would pile the family into their secondhand station wagon and gape at the prosperous neighborhoods of Bellevue, Laurelhurst and Washington Park. "They used to drive by nice areas to show us what you would get if you worked hard and went to school," recalls Frank's younger brother Michael, now the regional sales manager for an online service in Southern California. Each of their children attended college; all but one graduated...
...alone will not be enough. Patches can run $4 a day or $224 for an eight-week treatment, he said, and he advises first-day backsliders not to throw good money after bad. But aspiring quitters of all stripes are a notoriously quixotic bunch, whose "quit days" can quickly pile up seven to a week. Hope springs eternal, and Mark Twain did it lots of times...