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Cheney was in for a fitful evening; he was "just crushed," another guest told the New York Times. The paper says the hunting party somberly ate roast beef for dinner and got periodic reports from two guests who had gone to the hospitals along with Whittington's wife Mercedes. The Secret Service notified local authorities, and a traveling aide to the Vice President gave a heads-up to the White House Situation Room. Bush adviser Karl Rove called Armstrong between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. to ask about Whittington--who, like Armstrong, is a friend of Rove's--and learned...
...they are a significant minority.”The book has quickly generated controversy in its first week. Last Friday, a nationwide coalition of student, faculty, and civil liberties groups calling itself “Free Exchange on Campus” condemned the book. “Our main beef with the book is that, first of all, it’s a blacklist,” said Adam J. Jentleson, policy advocacy manager at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank that is a member of the “Free Exchange on Campus” coalition...
...Maureen McCaffery said. “They guarded us close on the perimeter, and we couldn’t really get shots off and couldn’t make things happen.”After the season-ending defeat to the Big Green, the situation was obvious: either Harvard beef up its inside game or it get used to finishing in second place.The Crimson’s recent interior dominance suggests the former. The Crimson has outscored its opponents in the paint 126-79 in the last four games, going 3-1 over that stretch. This year, Harvard welcomed three...
...eight border patrol stations along the Texas-Mexico border, Customs and Border Patrol last month published an open request for bids from contractors who could provide 9,000 frozen beef and bean burritos per month to feed detained aliens. The request, found on the Federal Business Opportunities website under the title "Alien meals for Del Rio border patrol section," asks for boxes of five-ounce beef and bean burritos, individually wrapped and frozen to be delivered at least twice a month. The Eagle Pass border station, located on the banks of the Rio Grande, has the highest demand...
...Taken to an extreme, distrust gnaws away at some of the fundamentals of modern society. Why vote if all politicians are charlatans? Why work if all companies are crooked? Today, "Anyone with a beef can start a conspiracy theory," says Frank Furedi, a controversial sociology professor at Britain's University of Kent, who argues that deference to traditional authorities is being replaced by reverence for new ones. "We don't trust politicians but we have faith in the pronouncements of celebrities. We are suspicious of medical doctors but we feel comfortable with healers who mumble on about being 'holistic...