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It’s a tough pill to swallow, but the Crimson will look to build from this experience. With a big contest this weekend at NYU, the players feel there is a lot at stake...
When Bush was failing as an investor, Daddy rescued his sagging share in Harken with a windfall contract for oil drilling in Bahrain, despite Harken’s dismal history and lack of off-shore experience. The Bush pedigree bought Dubya his stake in Texas politics, even though his recklessness, not to mention his dope-dimmed mind, would have denied it to anyone else. Then, as governor, he exploited the University of Texas’s state-funded endowment to funnel investment money to his cronies...
...Bureau and students, faculty and staff in helping to address these outstanding issues. We have made considerable progress, thanks to the enormous hard work of many people. It is important that we approach what remains to be done as a collective community venture, where what is at stake is our health, our values and our sense of common well-being. Very good people, of vast integrity and commitment, are trying to make sense of these problems and fix them as rapidly as possible. Harvard’s mental health system is vigorous, ample, resilient, responsive and without question among...
...with Bush on national security," or "Edwards can win in the South." This is a form of pragmatism, I suppose. Democrats are desperate to beat George W. Bush. But it is also fresh evidence of television's ability to lobotomize democracy. With serious issues of war and prosperity at stake, horse-race punditry seems particularly vacant right now--and particularly useless in a year when we professional blabbers have demonstrated yet again the essential idiocy of political prognostication...
...person last year, compared to 135 L 40 years ago. Can't blame that on America : vintners point to the government's successful campaign against drunk driving. - By Terrence Murray Hold the front page! A U.S. judge torpedoed Conrad Black's plans to sell his controlling stake in Chicago-based newspaper publishers Hollinger International to British investors. Siding with Hollinger's board - which claimed the $466 million deal undervalued the firm - the ruling could clear the way for an auction of Hollinger's titles...