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...Another amateurish sign: Todd Palin's outsize role in the mess. Branchflower said it was out of his jurisdiction to pass judgment on the First Gentleman, but his report paints an extralegal role for Todd Palin that would have made the Hillary Clinton of 1992 blush. In the report, the head of Gov. Palin's security detail says that Todd spent about half of his time in the governor's office - not at a desk (he didn't have one), but at a long conference table on one side of the office, with his own phone to make and receive...
...buying up the dismembered parts of other firms. If these three remain strong in the coming years (all, including Citi, remain well-capitalized) and businesses continue to have the need for management consultants (who have been affected little by the downturn), it’s not clear at first blush that the recent downturn is anything more than a small, sealable crack in Harvard’s pipeline to Wall Street...
...look to see if they are quoted accurately. If they show a headline, we check to see if the headline was actually in the papers. Sometimes they make them up. I'm not kidding. They blurb some of these things in ways that would make a Hollywood publicist blush...
Early last Monday morning, I offered to help a student group I belong to with a round of postering in the Yard. I am, however, forced to admit that this was not an act of noble sentiments, a sudden blush of neighborly feeling that struck at dawn. I woke up to be an ethnographer...
...train station. Every time a horseman passed them, Felicity had shivered uncontrollably.Now they had spent two months already in the palatial villa which Roxanna could see rising into view up the road, the rows of tall cypresses framing bright walls. Two months, and no return date set. Roxanna wondered, blushing even at the thought, if Felicity was trying to relive her honeymoon in Florence. Certainly the Viscount and the Viscountess shared the same bed every night. Yet their room seemed oddly quiet, and when Roxanna brought Felicity her evening glass of warm milk, she thought the Viscountess lay next...