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During Adams House’s annual Halloween Drag Night this October, a scene played out in the House’s kitchen that has resulted in bitter accusations and a University investigation into Adams House chef and union official Ed Childs. Details of what happened in the kitchen and the ongoing investigation are heavily contested or unavailable. But the case raises questions about how University employees engage with House communities and about how supervisors, managers and employees treat one another...
...come up with the money that education experts say it will take to truly leave no child behind. Democratic Congressman George Miller and Senator Ted Kennedy, both of whom had done business with Bush and became symbols of Bush's early willingness to reach across party lines, are now bitter opponents of the White House...
...hated--by half of Britain. Bush is religiously devout, and that too calls up troubling spirits from Europe's vasty deep. Not all Europeans are godless heathens nor all Americans washed in the blood of the Lamb. But in European memory, religious fervor has often been a source of bitter communal strife--think of Ireland and the Balkans. Bush is prepared to use force to advance his political goals. But after the carnage of what might be called the long European war from 1914 to 1989, some Europeans--particularly older ones, in my experience--just cannot accept the idea that...
...When he did, a few tears briefly welled as he thanked the troops for their bravery. The loudest cheers came with Bush's promise to hang in here, despite the soaring attacks against troops. "We didn't charge hundreds of miles into he heart of Iraq and pay a bitter cost in casualties? only to retreat before a band of thugs and assassins," he said, as soldiers leaped to their feet, roaring their approval...
...than $650 million next year, and even lead to its breakup. No wonder Abramovich likes London. He had ample reason to think he'd won the Kremlin's favor. In 2001, he bought the ort TV channel for $150 million from Boris Berezovsky, once Putin's ally, then his bitter foe, and turned it over to the state. He also invested several hundred million of his own money to improve living conditions in depressed Chukotka province. For the first time ever, the population of Chukotka started receiving national TV and acquired modern supermarkets, cinemas, a concert hall and an indoor...