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...lawmakers to risk their seats out of loyalty to the President. "What leverage does he have? Not a lot," says a senior Senate Republican aide. Bush's influence has ebbed since the last Congress, when he failed to rally Republicans behind an immigration deal. Democrats say Bush's biggest problem is his style of dealing with Congress. "He likes to be the closer, bringing in the last five fence-sitters," says a senior House Democratic aide. "But this time he needs to engage early in the process to prove this is a real priority...
Government officials say they try to steer Iraqis to smaller towns, where housing is cheaper and their skills are in greater demand. But Iraqis resist. "It's a major problem for us," says Mattias Sjberg, a migration officer at the Swedish Migration Board in Stockholm. "We send people to the north or down south, but in the end many Iraqis end up in Stockholm, where there is a [Muslim] community...
...thinker--rather like Jefferson himself, only better. He assembled his own version of the Gospels, slicing out everything miraculous with a razor. Jefferson kept his Gospels private while he lived, but his views were suspected; archenemy Alexander Hamilton bluntly called him an "Atheist." Andrew Jackson had a more public problem: he married his wife Rachel before her divorce from her first husband had gone through. In later years, Jackson said he had not known at the time that Rachel was technically unavailable. But historian Andrew Burstein argues that Jackson did know and that jumping the gun was socially acceptable...
...McPhee's case, the problem was in his torso. After studying the results of his physical evaluation and a computer-generated chart showing how he transferred energy from his hips to his torso and then to his arms and eventually the clubhead, TPI found that because of his tight upper back, all the power he was generating in his lower body was being frittered away when it reached his torso. The solution? A shorter backswing that would allow him to compensate for his torso stiffness and maintain the power generated by his hips. "It was like a lightbulb turned...
...Americans] believe in the myth twice as frequently as [European-Americans] because they observe it twice as often?” Retsky’s research is again raising eyebrows. Len Lichtenfeld, deputy chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, said he was skeptical. “The problem here is, there is little evidence provided to back up the claim. It is a theory, not a study supporting the theory, but simply a theory,” he wrote in an e-mailed statement. Lichtenfeld expressed his worry that Retsky’s findings may reinforce African-American...