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Alice McDermott is one of those writers who take seriously the injunction to write about what you know. The intricately beset realm of Irish Americans in New York City and on Long Island is the world she grew up in. It's that same world she has offered us, newly lighted, examined and even transfigured, in five earlier novels, including Charming Billy, a National Book Award winner...
...Armitage Press-friendly best bud of Colin Powell was thought to oppose the war without saying so publicly. Source of leak to discredit Joe Wilson, who tried to discredit Bush case for war. A bit discredited now himself. Cabinet post in a McCain Administration; failing that, he can always write his tell-all memoirs. Robert Novak Conservative pundit known as the Prince of Darkness; assumed (wrongly) by liberals to be Bush lackey. Always a war skeptic; complained that Armitage treated him "with disdain" in years before the leak. Will write must-read (in Washington) columns until they pry his keyboard...
About six weeks into Ec1010b, “Macroeconomic Theory,” Professor Nicola Fuchs-Schundeln left the podium to write some unintelligible equation on the board...
...find out what time the shuttles were actually running. The number had not been advertised yet this year. Upon calling to re-confirm the schedule, however, I was told by the dispatcher that there was no shuttle running on the weekend schedule, as Tempesta had said. As I write this article, I still have no idea whether there will be a shuttle tonight to bring me back to the Yard—or over to a party. Even those in charge appear to be confused—leaving us students no choice but to feel the same. If the Shuttle...
...despite the interest and a watershed opportunity created by Mayor Anthony Williams' stepping down after eight years on the job. Just over 32% of D.C. voters bothered to show up at polling places Tuesday. And unlike in neighboring, affluent Montgomery County, Md., where a series of screwups left voters writing their choices down on blank paper for officials to collect and count later, there were no long lines or busted machines keeping people away. Preliminary statistics show overall turnout in D.C. was actually lower this year than in 2002, when the incumbent Williams ran without serious opposition...