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...little before 10 a.m. on Saturday, just as the Crimson football team sat down for a final motivational speech and the University of Pennsylvania band tuned up, Darlene Sadoski unfolded a card table from her trunk and unpacked her picnic basket...
...require a Senate vote. Officials have "red tagged" his security clearance, hoping he can get the O.K. in two weeks, not the eight months that some Administration officials have been waiting. In a series of White House meetings this week, Ridge started to divide his responsibilities into three baskets. The first will concentrate on emergency response, building on the work of the existing Federal Emergency Management Agency. A second will look at "hardening" targets now so soft that they may tempt terrorists. In the third basket, working with Bush's National Security Council (of which Ridge will be a member...
...been forecasting around $130 million in profit this year, and O?Leary sees "no reason why we won?t hit that figure." The outspoken chief has taken out newspaper ads railing against government bailouts for his competitors. As O?Leary is fond of saying, even if you give a basket case a subsidy, it will still be a basket case...
...White. He has been passing out money ever since he had any. On Christmas Eve 1952, he had two young children and just $1,100 in the bank. Yet he wrote checks totaling $700 to charities. In 1958--then with six children--he dropped $2,000 in the collection basket at St. Bernard's parish in Newton, Mass. The gift more than doubled the parish's take that week...
...fact, the wall lasted only 28 years. And one man who saw its frailty was Richard Nixon, the man defeated in 1960 by Kennedy. In a strange, short interview with me some 20 years after the wall was built, Nixon described the Soviet Union as a "basket case" which would come apart soon and take the wall down with it. His was a lonely voice but, and in this case, a true...