Word: blanke
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...just who wants it more.”Their freshman year, the team leaned on its outstanding defense, anchored by Rhodes, Shields, and Laura Odorczyk ’07, to win in Ivy play. The squad broke the program’s single-season shutout mark, posting 11 blank slates.This year, the team will again rely on Rhodes and a stalwart defense to carry Harvard in the Ivies. It seems that the more things change, the more they stay the same.“I think even though we’ve had different coaches, we?...
...refreshing act of bipartisanship, both presidential hopefuls have strong reservations about this part of Paulson’s plan. Senator Barack Obama said, “Given the breach of trust we have seen and the magnitude of the taxpayer money involved, there can be no blank check.” In a surprising divergence from President Bush’s sentiments, Senator John McCain proclaimed, “Never before in the history of our nation has so much power and money been concentrated in the hands of one person.” In a way, President Bush...
...Here was Obama: "It is wholly unreasonable to expect that American taxpayers would or should hand this Administration or any Administration a $700 billion blank check with absolutely no oversight or conditions when a lack of oversight in Washington and on Wall Street is exactly what got us into this mess...
...what the best design is." But it's leaning toward conducting "reverse auctions" in which the Treasury would, for example, buy $1 billion in bad mortgages from whichever institution would take the least amount of money for them. On the other hand, the Treasury initially asked for a virtual blank check in how it would conduct the bailout, including guarantees that no court or other monitors could second-guess their actions. That provision, not surprisingly, has became a major bone of contention in Congress, and it now appears increasingly likely that some form of oversight will be written into...
...made a "career" out of killing animals, preserving their remains and calling it art is receiving so much attention from the media. This self-obsessed man confesses that his work is all "a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas." His work is not art, and we should not be worshiping a man whose only motivation seems to be to getting attention and money by provoking controversy. Mat Beckwith, Villars, Switzerland