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...while it is still unclear to many what she was actually charged with, everyone seems to know about her character flaws. She has been condemned as a domineering executive who is overly bold in the business world and lacks personal warmth. Stewart is an incredibly impressive self-made woman who has earned more than a billion dollars teaching a sophisticated version of home ec. Can we blame her for being aggressive...
...Then there is Gardner?s bold claim that Kerry use to take PCF-44 four or five miles from shore every night so not to get shot at. When pressed how this could be so, since oftentimes they were 25 miles upriver, he backed down. ?Okay, when we were in the rivers we didn?t go to sea,? he averred. ?But he always tried to park it away from the action and hide.? The other members of PCF-44 were incredulous when they heard Gardner?s claim. To Wasser it was ?erroneous to his memory,? to Zaladonis ?just not true...
...standing in the polls has dropped. New gambits like a mission to Mars and an amnesty program for illegal immigrants left supporters cold. When the President talked about steroids in January's State of the Union speech, they wondered if a team once known for doing big and bold things hadn't become bogged down in narrowcasting. (As it turns out, the idea actually came from Bush, who had noticed, say aides, that some major league players "had their careers resurrected" in ways that pointed to the possibility of steroid use.) The White House response to Democratic attacks also seemed...
...back catalog in Shades of Blue and fashioned himself a rapper on helium by essentially sampling and speeding up his own voice in Quasimoto’s The Unseen; the latter reworked tacky Eighties hits and cartoon themes into eerily poignant hooks on Operation Doomsday. Both are bold enough to let their music get lost within the crates...
Over the weekend University President Lawrence H. Summers announced a bold new initiative that will drastically increase financial aid to students from less wealthy backgrounds. Starting in September, parents who earn less than $40,000 per year will no longer have to contribute any money towards their children’s Harvard educations; those who earn between $40,000 and $60,000 will see a mean annual reduction of $1,250. Summers was justifiably happy to trumpet Harvard’s increased largesse when addressing Sunday’s 86th annual meeting of the American Council of Education in Miami...