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...Roaring Brook Press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Children's Books of 2005 | 11/30/2005 | See Source »

...inspired by another spiffy development in Westchester, NY and has been praised by residents as both “innocuous” and “nice.” Not only is the name without connotation, it sounds like it belongs near a country club or a babbling brook, which might boost real estate prices significantly. Further, the proposed name was intelligently designed—“lane” instead of “street”—to avoid unnecessary alliteration, so as not to reflect badly on residents’ poetic sensibilities...

Author: By Theodore S Grant | Title: Hooker, Please | 11/9/2005 | See Source »

...expectations have been set pretty high for this year’s Colgate team by national media, the squad did lose both its top goal scorer and a former all-league goalie. The good news? The Raiders’ team depth was their strength last year and the improved Brook Wheeler, who posted a 1.76 goals against average, is back between the pipes. They have finished seventh in the ECAC for three straight years, but might be able to close the gap with the upper echelon teams. On the other hand, Colgate has already lost this year to a Division...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman and Gabriel M. Velez | Title: Around the ECAC | 11/8/2005 | See Source »

...ironically, his embrace of state pre-eminence over federal authority meant he was sometimes hard to locate on the conservative-liberal spectrum. As political scientists Jeffrey Segal of Stony Brook University in New York and Harold Spaeth of Michigan State demonstrate in their book The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model, Rehnquist supported states' economic regulations 89% of the time when the regulations were pro-business and 88% of the time when they were anti-business. "No other Justice comes close to this sort of across-the-board deference" to the states, Segal said in an e-mail. "Most justices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: William Rehnquist: 1924-2005 | 9/4/2005 | See Source »

...wall in my study, watching me work and challenging me to find his strength in myself. It does not matter if he was created by Rembrandt or Joe Schmalz. The Man with the Golden Helmet is a part of my life and cannot be diminished. Bruce D. Anderson Bound Brook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 6, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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