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...sure successes in order to slowly build its credibility and standing in the eyes of students. Running all sorts of circuses may look like a good idea for a new administration eager to make a splash, but the council has an uncanny talent for ending up a wet blanket...
...thankful for living in a place where winter gets good and cold and you need to build a fire in a stove and wrap a blanket around you. Cold draws people closer together. Crime drops. Acts of kindness proliferate between strangers. I have been in Los Angeles on a balmy day in January and seen the glum faces of people poking at their salads in outdoor restaurants, brooding over their unproduced screenplays. People in Minnesota are much cheerier, lurching across the ice, leaning into the wind as sheets of snow swirl up in their faces. Because they feel needed...
...growing seedy while federal employees were off duty. West Point cadets, for example, will not earn the sobriquet "The Longhaired Grey Line" after all, now that their barbers are manning the chairs again. Keeping the West Point grounds decently manicured during the shutdown was not a problem, since a blanket of snow had covered the heights above the Hudson River...
Murphy begins his recruiting process for the next year in February with a blanket mailing to every school in the United States and Canada...
Majority Republicans on the Senate panel, which reopened its hearings into the affair on Wednesday, today said they would issue 49 document subpoenas to the White House, regulatory agencies and potential witnesses with material on the Whitewater affair. Democrats derided the demands as "blanket subpoenas" and complained that what the GOP calls White House foot-dragging is actually trouble complying with such voluminous requests...