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...questionable foreign donations to the Democratic Party. White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta claims that the message from the election was that voters want compromise not partisan warfare. "The American people have really rejected four years of those kinds of allegations that led nowhere," Panetta said. "If we bog down in the kind of gridlock and partisanship and attacks that we saw over the last two years, I think the American people will reject that...
While many of us were disappointed to learn of our banishment to the bog, the shared experience of living away from our classmates made us into a tight-knit group and forged many close friendships. Preparing our dogsleds for the morning trek over the Cambridge tundra was a great bonding experience. Furthermore, Garden Street did not lack the wonderful diversity of the Yard community. A conservative Filipino-American from the lovely garden state of "New Joisie," I found myself living with a wacky West Coast liberal from that mythical state of California--a place whose name can be loosely translated...
...only way to stop the Tarhunah project, the CIA decided, was to bog down its construction. Agency experts on chemical factories and tunneling used computers to build elaborate construction-flow charts that identified choke points. To buy equipment, Gaddafi had set up a purchasing network, operating through front companies and middlemen around the world. CIA and State Department officials persuaded governments in Italy, Switzerland, Japan, Denmark, Austria, Britain and Poland to stop deliveries of equipment Libya had bought from their companies...
...nine children, he was raised on Mossbawn, the family farm some 30 miles northwest of Belfast. A Protestant estate adjoined the Catholic Heaneys' land. "I was symbolically placed," he said later, "between the marks of English influence and the lure of the native experience, between 'the demesne' and 'the bog.' The demesne was walled, wooded, beyond our ken; the bog was rushy and treacherous, no place for children...
Being swallowed up by a bog is not a very presidential exit, so it's just as well that a Mountie and a Secret Service man accompanied George Bush when he took an unplanned constitutional during a fishing trip in Newfoundland. "Bogholes in Newfoundland can look like hard ground," says Corporal Les Noble, the Mountie. "All of a sudden the President went into a boghole, and he was in above his waist." Noble, who had one foot in the quicksand-like bog himself, managed after a 10-minute struggle to extricate Bush with the help of Secret Service...