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...arrived just before the meeting was about to begin. Stopping to catch my breath, I opened the doors and entered Room 201 of Harvard Hall. I scanned the assembled crowd to survey those who had, like me, come in search of summer jobs on Wall Street. Something about the mass of people immediately struck me as notable but my frenzied state clouded my reason. I noticed that most of the people were looking over an application, and I immediately sought to find...
...recent college graduate, I'm pretty certain my next job will not require Senate confirmation hearings. But because I live in a world where the depth of a breath is the difference between the President and the guy who asks, "You want fries with that?" this confession makes me nervous. Mom, Dad, you loved me, you paid attention to me, and you told me not to smoke marijuana--but I did anyway. I wasn't experimenting. I was taking deep breaths and inhaling...
...they can manage is a wistful croak or an awkward shuffle. This is very funny, and it is often very poignant. For which of us has not dreamed these sweet little dreams of transcendence--sung a love song under our breath, done a silly little two-step on the way home from a musical when we guessed no one was looking...
...House of Representatives that has only two fewer Republican members than it had after the 1994 election and a Senate that has two more Republican members than it did before the election. Knowing this, it is little wonder that the White House has not wasted its time or its breath on the standard blather about a Presidential mandate that usually follows a successful re-election campaign--they know, as we all know, that this election was not a mandate for Bill Clinton or the Democratic Party...
...obtain a conviction for espionage, the government must prove that the information passed to a foreign power affects national security. To say it was classified is not enough. The defense can call in still more classified information. So right now the intelligence community is also taking a deep breath. "The one thing they really want is a confession, so they can avoid a trial," says a retired CIA official...