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Through it all, Bush himself was strangely absent, even when he was in full view. He came before the cameras Wednesday morning to say how great Dick Cheney sounded on the phone, that his hospitalization was just a precaution; he hadn't had a heart attack, even though his own aides knew Cheney had actually had a stent placed in his artery and neglected to mention it. Asked about his next legal move, Bush referred to his legal eagles--"Jim Baker is in charge of the team in Florida, and he's doing a really good job down there...
...from under every form of Western authority. America had figured neither in the Bible nor in Aristotle, so what was it doing there? Then, within a few decades, returning with explorers from east and west came a flood of new plant and animal species, all of them also absent from the canonical lists. Help! If Holy Writ and the Big A were wrong, which way was up? For more than a century, things taxonomic went to hell in a handbasket while the European intelligentsia behaved like Chicken Little...
...campaign missed an opportunity to touch on the aspirations and hopes of Americans for their political system," he said. "It was absent of poetry, history, what campaigning should be about...
...Through it all, Bush himself was strangely absent, even when he was in full view. He came before the cameras Wednesday morning to say how great Dick Cheney sounded on the phone, that his hospitalization was just a precaution; he hadn't had a heart attack, even though his own aides knew Cheney had actually had a stent placed in his artery and neglected to mention it. Asked about his next legal move, Bush referred to his legal eagles - "Jim Baker is in charge of the team in Florida, and he's doing a really good job down there...
...Last year, more than 90 percent of tenth graders took the MCAS tests statewide. But in Cambridge, about 30 percent of sophomores--around 150 students--were absent from the test...