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...everybody Richard meets is a Quirky Character whose purpose in life seems to be to jolly him out of his numbness. On his way home from the hospital, he stops at a doughnut shop run by a quirky immigrant named Anhil who sends up the foibles of Americans in broken English. ("America has two kinds of politicians--one has sex, the other has war--which do you like?") They become fast friends. When a sinkhole opens up near Richard's house, a quirky surveyor comes to survey it. A quirky neighbor girl's horse falls into it. A quirky, Brad...
...driven to action now by the missteps and misjudgments of the White House and the Pentagon, and by my many painful visits to our military hospitals. In those places, I have been both inspired and shaken by the broken bodies but unbroken spirits of soldiers, Marines and corpsmen returning from this war. The cost of flawed leadership continues to be paid in blood. The willingness of our forces to shoulder such a load should make it a sacred obligation for civilian and military leaders to get our defense policy right. They must be absolutely sure that the commitment...
Already this is fun. But it gets better. The story was broken by the Daily News, locked for decades in a fratricidal tabloid war with the Post. The scoop gave News owner Mort Zuckerman delicious revenge against Post owner Rupert Murdoch. The Post, which is cooperating with the FBI, has suspended Stern, meanwhile noting that he was only a part-time underling of Page Six editor Richard Johnson...
...ground on which Harvard and HFAI are treading resembles a long, graded hike up to a high and rocky plateau. Broken down by family income, about 25 percent of Harvard families make less than $80,000 a year. Next year, HFAI will address significantly more of these families’ financial needs, including the elimination of parental contribution for families earning under $60,000 a year. As impressive as this sounds, these initial 25 percent of families are the metaphorical warm-up jaunt through scrub brush and pine needles in anticipation of the difficult, rocky climb ahead...
...Granted, when such a watered down bill came back to the Senate, Reid could still block it by filibustering. But in a election year, Reid knew that could be political suicide, forcing fellow Democrats to vote against a bill Republicans would portray as securing America's broken borders. Those Democrats who were around in the last mid-term election are still smarting from the votes they cast against the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, an issue Republicans cashed in handily at the polls. Giving Frist another National Security vote to beat the Democrats with, they feared...