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With his left arm, Ted Kennedy leaned on a metal cane; with his right, he was braced by his old pal Orrin Hatch. The two Senators, the President and First Lady, and former President Bill Clinton had come to the SEED School in Southeast Washington, a working-class neighborhood that rarely gets a glimpse of a President, let alone two. The occasion: the signing of landmark national-service legislation that had been sponsored by the Republican Hatch, from Utah, and the ailing Democratic lion from Massachusetts...
...Compounding that problem, from a businessman's point of view, is the way the Obama Administration treats Fannie and Freddie as part of the federal government. James Lockhart, the director of their new overseer, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, has said they are to act as an "arm" of the Treasury Department - even though they are still, technically, for-profit, publicly traded companies. From a moratorium on foreclosures to a program to purchase and guarantee home loans for more than what the houses are worth, the agencies have taken steps that are greatly influenced by the goals of policy makers...
...freshman season was more of the same: he was assigned to scout duty, reduced to preparing the starters for real competition. Witt squeezed some playing time into a 55-7 win against Columbia in New York, but the coaching staff didn’t allow his right arm to make it into the scoring summary. During spring practices and into summer and preseason workouts, Witt started to get some more snaps, see some more reps, but it seemed somewhat in vain: two upperclassmen still stood solidly...
...Somalia someday and . . . well . . . who knows? The buttering-up had one quick result: Aidid's fighters released helicopter pilot Michael Durant, whose terrified face on television had turned many Americans against the whole involvement, and Nigerian soldier Umar Shantali. Durant, suffering from broken bones in the back, leg, arm and face, was flown to an American hospital in Germany. Oakley also made some progress getting neighboring African states, notably Ethiopia and Eritrea, to involve themselves in peacemaking. One project he has been assigned by Clinton is to help organize an African commission to investigate who really was responsible...
...hurler Jonah Klees, who mirrored his afternoon counterpart by overcoming early struggles to pitch effectively.Despite walking the first two batters of the game on eight pitches and allowing a runner to reach in each of the first four innings, Klees held the Bears in check with well placed side-arm breaking balls on the inside part of the plate. The rookie yielded three earned runs and only five hits through six innings, but could not outduel Gormley.“[Gormley] was very good,” Walsh said. “He was tough...