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Clinton’s shadow loomed large over Clark’s visit to Harvard, which also included a brief question-and-answer session in Kirkland House’s Junior Common Room...
...retailer of sports clothing and merchandise in Britain and Belgium, he might as well be walking into all of them. If a certain product--say, a soccer jersey--is unavailable in the store he's in, the clerk can check the inventory of all nearby branches through a brief phone query. The clerk doesn't actually talk to anyone, but with a few keystrokes she uses the phone to check a database and locate the nearest store with the shirt...
Conservative control over the language of policy is largely creditable to an extremely effective intellectual infrastructure, but the structure of the media makes it all possible. When all discourse must be reduced to brief television packages, anyone who can come up with a two-word version of a complex policy will be rewarded. It helps, of course, to have a whole network dedicated to propounding Republican policies, like Fox News. The existence of a channel like Fox means that terminology fine-tuned in the White House can quickly enter the political conversation as though it were objective terminology...
...takes no small measure of ego to make such a cocksure assertion. Yet I have no reserve in insisting that Hail to the Thief will be viewed, in the years to come, as the finest of Radiohead’s first six albums. With Thief, the band take a brief pause from their constant experimental momentum to release their version of a greatest hits record. “2+2=5” recalls the guitar-driven bravado of The Bends and the standout “We Suck Young Blood” envelops a classic Amnesiac sound with pleading...
...delegation of monks from Moscow’s Danilov Monastery—including the spiritual leader of the Russian Orthodox Church—is due to arrive in Cambridge today for a brief trip to see the Lowell House bells and ask the University to return them to the 721-year-old monastery where they originated...