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...White House's Roosevelt Room is wired for PowerPoint presentations, and most officials also bring handouts when they brief George W. Bush and his inner circle. But Budget Director Josh Bolten, who has spent months walking the President through a problem that could dramatically affect his legacy, sticks to colorful charts on old-fashioned easels. The lights stay on, so nobody dozes off, and there's no paper to wander through. It's dense material, after all. "I keep everyone's attention focused on what I want them to focus on," Bolten said...
JENNY LEWIS WITH THE WATSON TWINS RABBIT FUR COAT On a brief vacation from the rock band Rilo Kiley, Lewis takes exuberant steps in lots of musical directions. From the gospel rhythm and secular doubt of The Big Guns ("I've won hundreds at the track but I'm not betting on the afterlife") to the blue-eyed soul of You Are What You Love, each song has a sense of narrative motion, largely because Lewis knows which moments call for delicacy and which demand emotive belting. She can also interpret others' songs, as proved when she nips Handle with...
...Iuliano argued that the University has a compelling interest in withholding the names of students who have encounters with HUPD but are not arrested. HUPD often responds to noise complaints, underage drinking, and reports of “suspicious activity” without making arrests. Those incidents appear as brief blurbs on the department’s police log without identifying the individuals involved...
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...brief, the Crimson has noted that potential constitutional questions may arise if HUPD records are exempted from public disclosure. Because the Crimson did not raise this issue in its complaint or before the Superior Court, it has been waived. See Salem v. Bureau of Special Educ. Appeals of the Dep't of Educ., 444 Mass. 476, 485-486 (2005); Albert v. Municipal Court of the City of Boston, 388 Mass...