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...might improve the enthusiasm of committee members by ensuring they all actually want to plan events. But the SEC will not be in any better a position to achieve the more important goal of gauging and responding to student interest for campus-wide events. The promise of a close bond between the SEC and University Hall does little to raise our hopes, since we have always assumed that UC committees would be well connected to the College.Instead of replacing the CLC with a directly elected twin, the SEC, we recommend that the funding for campus-wide events be channeled...
Friends say Cheney is well aware that his unique bond with the President, while not broken, is diminished. "He has become," said a former aide still close to the White House, "one adviser among many." Renewing his relationship with a troubled President, the friends say, has become a more urgent mission for the 64-year-old Vice President than bolstering his own sagging public image. The President's poll ratings remain at a five-year low, and two of the big reasons are a discouraging war for which Cheney served as head hawk, and the indictment of Cheney's chief...
...conspicuous frugality helped him get elected Governor of South Carolina in 2002. But a growing chorus of critics, including leaders of his own G.O.P., fear that his thrift has brought the state's economy to a standstill. This summer Standard & Poor's lowered South Carolina's coveted AAA-bond rating to AA+, citing unemployment of 6.3% and a per capita income ($27,172) stuck in the nation's bottom fifth. The state had just lost its bid for a $500 million Airbus plant; Sanford was widely accused of making a miserly effort to lure the aerospace giant...
Indeed, a year ago, Schwarzenegger had very little to regret. Initially, he used his celebrity to pass a stem-cell research funding initiative and a major bond issue that tempered rising budget deficits, while working well with a Democratic-controlled legislature to secure passage of a popular gun-control law and environmental measures. But perhaps because success came so easy, he stopped playing the role of consensus builder. After all, many of the ballot initiatives he pushed--as well as his failed effort earlier this year to bring the costly public pension system under control--made sense. California's redistricting...
...blackmail by a French thug or the martyrdom of The Wu-Tang Clan’s The RZA. In my limited experience, at least.However in “Derailed,” the appallingly bad star vehicle for post-“Friends” Jennifer Aniston and never-Bond Clive Owen, anything is possible.The “thrilling” plot—which aspires to twist and turn but really lurches and falls off the tracks—is, ostensibly, the story of dissatisfied corporate executives Charles Schine (Owen) and Lucinda Harris (Aniston) who meet on a Chicago...