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When she attacks the trouble spots on a sink—between the steel and the porcelain—with a grout brush and green sponge, she says, “It’s probably the easiest [part] to do but the hardest to do well...
...surprisingly, that is a brush that Parsons prefers not to be tarred with as he sets out to conquer the U.S. market. He recently paid courtesy calls to critics in Washington. In a meeting on Capitol Hill, Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher of California opened the discussion, Parsons recalls, by declaring, "You're the channel that hates freedom and loves terrorism." Another conservative whom Parsons visited was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Elizabeth Cheney, daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney. According to Parsons, she expressed concern that his channel would pander to anti-American sentiments. "She was skeptical in the beginning...
...April 2004] report laid out some very broad brush strokes,” said Robert A. Lue, a senior lecturer on molecular and cellular biology and member of three curricular review committees. “What you’re beginning to see in these reports is something that is a bit more detailed...
...current “nuclear” war will continue to damage the political and judicial systems as long as it continues, regardless of its outcome. Democrats should brush aside perceived short-term gains from filibustering and reassert their commitment to an up-or-down vote on nominees. A recent poll showed that while only 37 percent of Americans support going nuclear, 80 percent support floor votes on all nominees. Dems should end an unjust war and take the moral high ground...
...been updated, via IM and drunken phone calls, on a series of more and less licit college firsts. His first Spring Fling—which, so far as I can gather, is like our Springfest with more alcohol and an actual band—was last weekend. His first brush with campus police, first fraternity rush season, and first sexile came considerably before that. His breathless and quasi-coherent accounts of college life make me nostalgic for a time when so much of college was new. When he came up to visit over his spring break, he tried, with limited...