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...City Manager Robert W. Healy, for example, “is in the process of destroying thousands of trees and then will brag about planting saplings,” LaTrémouille says. He also accuses the city of destroying the wetlands along the Charles River and putting in “silly plants that have no business on the river...
...summa and the Hoopes nomination. “All I wanted to get out of it was to learn about playwriting and about the Greek system,” says Martin. “I’m happy. It’s something my mother and father can brag about.”Martin has remained humble about his extracurricular achievements as well, citing his respect for the Harvard theater community when discussing the Levy award. “The most flattering thing about it was just seeing the list of the people who were on the committee that...
...Bush campaign headquarters in Austin, Texas, in 1999, policy director Josh Bolten was a low-key Washingtonian in a building full of brash Texans. He assembled a best-and-brightest team with rsums bristling with brand names like his own--Princeton, Stanford, Goldman Sachs. "He used to brag that he had all these Supreme Court clerks from Harvard working for him," recalled a campaign veteran. Bolten was happy to let others preen in meetings while he waited to make a killer point at the end. He has thrived by showing, very quietly, that he is indispensable...
...BRAG MORE. White House officials who track coverage of Bush in media markets around the country said he garnered his best publicity in months from a tour to promote enrollment in Medicare's new prescription-drug plan. So they are planning a more focused and consistent effort to talk about the program's successes after months of press reports on start-up difficulties. Bolten's plan also calls for more happy talk about the economy. With gas prices a heavy drain on Bush's popularity, his aides want to trumpet the lofty stock market and stable inflation and interest rates...
...just have to pay more to get the job done. That said, much of the rhetoric surrounding the immigration debate seems to reflect little more than a mean-spirited desire to punish others for seeking the American dream. When one of our most liberal senators feels the need to brag about fining immigrant families and sending undocumented workers “to the back of the line,” something is wrong. I’m not naive; America must have some restrictions on immigration. But this country’s lust to harshly punish these families for their...