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Republicans had begun to feel better about the election recently after Bush got a bump in the polls, reflecting a steady decline in gas prices and a successful effort by the White House to push national-security issues to the top of the news. But by last week G.O.P. operatives were less elated. Newscasts were trumpeting the tales of infighting in Bush's war cabinet told in Bob Woodward's State of Denial, a book full of stories about an Administration pursuing a war with no clue how to go about it. And Representative Mark Foley, a Republican from Florida...
...MRSA infection, according to members of the team. “The first person got kind of like a rash,” said Austin D. McLeod ’09, a linebacker who himself contracted MRSA. “The second person got a rash and some bumps.” According to McLeod, as the bacteria spread to more players, the symptoms intensified. “The guy who had it before me got it on his calf and it sort of swelled up. I got it on my foot and it swelled up to the point where...
...talked tough. He lectured the bad guys - Syria, Iran, Hamas, etc. - and promised to stay the course in Iraq. He invoked 9/11. He said he hoped for a diplomatic solution to the nuclear crisis with Iran but offered no new means to achieve it. He was Presidential. Expect another bump up in the polls...
...spreadsheets or Word documents, accelerating and decelerating until you get where you want to be. The scroll wheel actually engages and disengages the free spin depending on what application you're in, and what you're doing. If you are inching through a news story, you get the familiar bump-by-bump ratchet action, but if you land on your friend's mile-long blog and start scrolling, the ratchet bumps go away and the wheel's spin becomes Lance Armstrong smooth...
...Local villagers opposed to the development will sometimes bring you back down with a bump - they've been known to set up roadblocks and demand tolls from guests - but general manager Richard Neo will come to your rescue by golf buggy. Perhaps he should treat the village to a round of gui shi massages as well...