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Presidents since have left their mark on the office (except Jimmy Carter, who kept Gerald Ford's décor). L.B.J. installed a bank of televisions. On the Resolute desk, used by 21 of the past 24 Presidents, Harry Truman placed his THE BUCK STOPS HERE SIGN (the reverse read I'M FROM MISSOURI). And while its darker hours saw Richard Nixon's secret taping sessions and, in adjoining rooms, Bill Clinton's trysts with Monica Lewinsky, the Oval Office is where the President comes to draw the nation together--as Ronald Reagan did after the Challenger disaster, or George...
...when you got on him, you knew that you better have everything in line or it wasn't going to be good for you. Then there was another bull named Mossy Oak Mud Slinger. Everybody wanted to draw him, but if you made one little mistake, you would buck...
...becoming more important to people.6. FM: In retrospect, were you pleased with the results of Sustainability Week here?TAM: I thought it was great, yeah. The primary purpose is to get the greenhouse gas emissions down. I mean, that’s where the biggest bang for the buck is and it’s the most challenging.7. FM: So where does the leftover food from HUDS go?TAM: To the Boston Food Bank.8. FM: Signs in the dining halls recommend that students try “trayless dining.†How does ditching the tray help Harvard?...
...think the Pittsburgh area is going to make a difference. Yesterday, John McCain greeted 1,500 at Pittsburgh International Airport, while Hillary Clinton stopped by a suburban Pittsburgh Obama office to encourage the troops. Bill Clinton, meanwhile, was campaigning with John Murtha up the road in Johnstown, trying to buck up the anti-war but veteran-friendly Democratic Congressman. Murtha's reelection once seemed inevitable, until he labeled his constituents "racists" and "rednecks" who would find it difficult if not impossible to vote for Obama. (See pictures of Barack Obama's family tree...
...conservation body, the John Muir Trust, was even more direct in a statement issued to the press: "The government's reasoning seems to be that it is OK to ignore any number of protections that are in place to safeguard Scotland's environment, provided there is a big enough buck to be made...