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...year summer talking about a prescription-drug benefit and defending themselves on Social Security reform. "Bush finally has a domestic agenda," says a relieved White House adviser. But that doesn't mean there won't be arguments. The leaders of the House and Senate will be busy quelling the turf fights that have already begun. The biggest losers will be the Treasury Department, which would give up the Secret Service and Customs, and the Transportation Department, which would shed the Coast Guard...
...turf belongs not just to the shifting bureaucracies themselves but also to their employee unions, the lobbyists who do business with them and their patrons on Capitol Hill. Even before the President gave his speech Thursday night, House Transportation Committee chairman Don Young served notice on Speaker Dennis Hastert that he had no intention of giving up his committee's jurisdiction over the Coast Guard and the TSA. And California Democrat Ellen Tauscher, who supports most of the Bush plan, insists his decision to include her district's Lawrence Livermore nuclear-weapons lab in the new department is a mistake...
...hole in the back of the net. It's his third goal in 10 minutes?a rapid-fire hat trick. He slips off his lime-green shirt and runs, roaring, to strike a pose in front of his countrymen. Carefully, almost reverently, he places the shirt on the turf like an offering to the faithful. His fans bang bongos and clank cymbals and bellow right back. But hold on?aren't Nigeria's Super Eagles out of the World Cup, first-round casualties, winging their way back to Africa and ignominy? Not in Thailand, where they have firmed as favorites...
Most importantly, Harvard will get to play Penn on its home turf in Cambridge next year in a match that will likely once again decide the Ivy League championship...
...recent rise of the Harvard program has been no fluke. Jordan Field, Harvard’s three-year-old patch of artificial turf, has improved all facets of the game and allowed the Crimson to compete for top recruits. This year’s seniors were among the first to benefit, spurring Harvard to NCAAs in 2000 and paving the way for future tournament experiences...