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...which some have derided as pork. Frist has recently been attacking the growth of spending in Washington, but as the Majority Leader of the Senate for the last three years, he?s been a critical player in getting bills like the Medicare prescription drug plan passed, much to the chagrin of fiscal conservatives. And it?s unlikely Feingold will aggressively push his censure proposal in the months ahead, as his Democratic colleagues have already warned him it?s a bad political move for the 2006 congressional elections - which, of course, come before 2008. With these factors in mind...
...from Stewart (?I kid because I envy?) and hearing a female winner of the Short Subject Oscar ?thank the Academy for seating me next to George Clooney at the nominees? luncheon.? (The star, who knew a camera was trained on him throughout the ceremony, flashed a look of mild chagrin...
Maybe the National Book Foundation wasn’t so off target when it bestowed upon Stephen King the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2003, to the chagrin of the literary elite...
...from Math 55: “Honors Advanced Calculus and Linear Algebra.” It didn’t help Hugh M. Wolff ’75. The internationally renowned symphony conductor remembers his freshman-year initiation into the daunting world of Harvard math and science with some chagrin. “I took Physics 55 or something for physics majors and Math 50-something for math majors,” he laughs, saying he quickly realized he wasn’t cut out for the work. Slamming his topology textbooks shut forever, Wolff went off to study music...
...parole for criminals sentenced to life. Having done that, he could safely stick to middling stands on abortion rights and welfare reform. "My basic philosophy is a conservative one," says Ridge. "But I recognize there are times when government intervention is appropriate, much to the chagrin of some of my Republican counterparts...