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...That rosier scenario would provide some temporary political relief for the White House; it won't change the President's approach. The Bush-Cheney plan is certain to focus on increasing energy production. After all, you won't find any tree huggers in the White House: just a proud Texan who sank a few wells in the oil patch and his deputy, Cheney, a Texas transplant who made millions as CEO of Halliburton. Those ties give critics plenty to latch onto as the President and the Veep stump for achieving greater capacity by opening a pristine Alaskan preserve...
...white stucco four-story apartment building on the rocky, windswept Miura coast is called the Blue Sea. The palm tree in front is lashed down with ropes to keep it from blowing over. But the views of the sailboat marina and rugged coastline are spectacular. It's a tony area: Japan's best-known actor of the 1960s, Toshiro Mifune, lived a few hundred meters down the coast until he died a few years ago. It takes no more than 60 seconds to walk from the front lobby of the Blue Sea to the spot where Lucie's remains were...
...surviving children opened a bottle of Veuve Clicquot champagne on the beach where Lucie had been recovered. With representatives from Scotland Yard and the Tokyo Metropolitan Police looking on, as well as dozens of paparazzi buzzing the water in speedboats, the Blackmans planted a small evergreen tree in Lucie's memory. Tim said of his daughter's end, "I hope Lucie had a glass of champagne, felt a bit woozy and passed out." They prayed. They cried. And then, for some reason, they started to laugh. Tim says this might be difficult to understand, but "with Lucie, laughter was always...
...That farcical touch actually contributed to the victims' fate. Banerjee describes an ill-prepared administration that collapsed like a frail tree. Nearly everyone comes off as indictable: the politicians who demanded aerial surveys or motorcades for photo ops; the volunteers who scrambled for grants from aid agencies but did nothing about rehabilitation; the journalists looking for color. Relief material piled up but was not distributed. (Some ended up in Gujarat after its devastating earthquake 15 months later.) The greatest crime of all: officials responsible for relief, after failing in their jobs, were allegedly found swindling the state treasury. According...
...disagreement between Harvard and Radcliffe College were put aside and negotiators from both schools got serious about making an agreement. At 12:01 a.m. on October 1, as Radcliffe officials toasted the end of the 120-year-old institution’s independence from Harvard underneath an apple tree in Radcliffe Yard, what was formerly known as Radcliffe College ceased to exist, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study was born...