Word: benches
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...patient.” Amato recalled how Epstein made a point of connecting their research to the human body. “It really enhanced the experience, knowing you can help people in the future,” Amato said. Epstein was able to bring “the bench to the bedside,” Hessler said, noting his strengths as both a physician and a scientist. Epstein is perhaps best remembered for his personal warmth and kindness. “He was an incredibly compassionate and generous human being,” Hessler said...
Does hiring Emanuel mean Obama will be bringing in mostly old Clinton hands to populate offices in the West Wing and Cabinet agencies? Not necessarily. The Democratic bench is deep, but it is deep in large part because so many Democrats earned Executive Branch experience during the eight years of the Clinton presidency. It would be absurd to imagine Obama bypassing all of that experience in the name of bringing in only fresh blood. Undoubtedly, Obama will also bring in loyal campaign staffers and advisers who are not Clinton-era veterans. But installing someone like Emanuel to anchor the White...
...desperate to distance himself from the GOP that he ran ads touting his cooperation with Obama. And now Coleman has a better-than-even chance of returning to Washington, where he will surely rediscover his old party identification. It's an uninspiring but potentially effective political model for back-bench Republican Senators: follow the leaders for five years, then scramble back to the middle before re-election...
...Change. In Michigan, people put an electric fence around their yard sign to protect it. NASA astronauts on board the International Space Station sent a video message encouraging people to vote; they did, from 200 miles up. A judge in Ohio ruled that homeless people could use a park bench as their address in order to register. A couple flew home from India just to cast their ballots. Obama's Ohio volunteers knocked on a million doors on Monday alone. That night, a Florida official locked himself in the Seminole County election headquarters and slept overnight with the ballots...
...There may be a sense of frustration over seeing the national title within reach year after year without ever attaining it, but another product of Stone’s 14 years of experience behind the Harvard bench is perspective...