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...grown further apart. It was Cheney's former chief of staff I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, now indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice, who designed Cheneyland, which is largely housed in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, across from the White House. Determined to maintain tight control, Libby created a bottleneck beneath Cheney by trying to keep "all sensitive or politically interesting information to himself," a former Bush aide says. That sometimes cut Cheney off from hearing additional points of view even from his own aides. Libby's successor, David Addington, was viewed as so unyielding and difficult when...
...stations where students get their food from the station for the card-swiper. Directing students to get their food first and then line up to swipe would also work. This change would ameliorate the current system of one line for food and swiping, which creates an absolutely maddening bottleneck at peak hours of the day.With dining hall overcrowding becoming an increasingly large problem on campus, the proliferation of stringent interhouse dining restrictions is not a surprise. The escalation of restrictions is a necessary evil that we will have to live with, but it should...
...crack-down” on any future tailgates. Evans touted this crack-down, which will include parental notification for underage students caught drinking, as a response to students’ inappropriate actions at last year’s tailgate. Yes, there were problems in 2004. A bottleneck at the entrance caused crowd control issues, and a shortage of portable toilets made public urination common. But these problems are easy to remedy for the future. Overall, Ohiri Field was not the den of iniquity that Evans gleefully described to every media outlet that would listen to him. Actually, unlike previous years...
...committee’s proposal to add a peer advising system, particularly for freshmen. However, we fear that recruiting advisers and making sure they pay attention to advisees on top of each student’s heavy workload will be difficult. The Faculty should pay attention to this potential bottleneck. A small stipend for peer advisers may be the solution...
...capacity is not the major driver of higher gas prices. "The greater shortage is in the oil itself," says Rogers. Gas prices have been rising along with the price of crude. If gas prices were climbing while crude oil's remained flat, that would tell you there was a bottleneck pushing up prices. That hasn't been the case...