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...Once in a while, truth breaks through the truthiness. A political boss tells the voters, "We do not talk to you about war debts or wheat or immigration - we appeal to your hearts, not your intelligence." Confronted with Lincoln's quote about not being able to fool all of the people all of the time, the boss snorts, "It's different nowadays. People are bigger suckers." (That got a conspiratorial roar from the opening night Encores! crowd.) Toward the end, Wintergreen lapses into candor when he confides to Throttlebottom the basics of White House governance: "Of course the first four...
...original, down to a film clip of the MGM lion, crowing instead of roaring, the show has a brisk, canny bounce matched only by ... well, by The Drowsy Chaperone. Rando festoons John Lee Beatty's balconied set with streamers, packs the stage with sight gags and sex appeal - 10 gals in bathing suits, courted by boys with press cards in their hat bands. The cast and orchestra, under the vigorous baton of Paul Gemignani, rise to the material, then skate on it. Garber does justice to one of the all-time rousing musical-comedy lines, "Did you say corn muffins...
...always sort of wondered, is that right? Should we be doing more to help them?” While the grants are focused on ethics, Om L. Lala ’06, who will study the human organs market in India, said they have broad appeal. “I am more interested in public health, but ethics ultimately relates to any policy issue or any area of research,” said Lala, a Kirkland House government concentrator. Other recipients of the grants include W. Kevin Gan ’06, Ketih C. Hemmert...
...Among the new arrivals, only the restaurant Canteen might appeal to both the bohemian crowd and financial folk. "Is this a chain?" asked my Friday lunch companion. Not yet, but it's easy to imagine blond wood and tweedy green-upholstered clones being assembled out of flat packs across the land. Canteen offers freshly executed traditional British fare - macaroni and cheese, meat pies and all-day breakfasts - served with a mission statement that boasts of the kitchen's organic and local sourcing...
...site. The April agreement gives him about 60% of the $3.3 billion in public funding made available from Liberty Bonds to finish the site. He also has a $4.6 billion insurance settlement--it was ruled that the towers were hit by two separate attacks--although that is under appeal...