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...Administration official told TIME. Behind the scenes, Bush had insisted on a careful re-evaluation of every Cabinet member. A number of first-termers were planning to leave of their own accord, whereas others, the Administration official said, were discreetly pushed. In Snow's case, the White House chose to take its time. Consideration was given to Gramm and Forbes. But as the Administration official put it, "For every good thing they brought to the table, there was something offsetting." As a maverick tax cutter, Forbes was seen as a bad fit to lead Bush's team of loyalists...
...excited to read about the coolest inventions of the year [Nov. 29]. With his innovative SpaceShipOne, Burt Rutan hit the ball not just out of the park but right out of the atmosphere. I was disappointed, however, that many of the creations you chose were impractical, half-baked ideas. Consider the Snow Boat, which, by means of an aluminum boat welded around a snowmobile, is supposed to solve the problem of the vehicle's falling through the ice. That's like making a safer motorcycle by carrying it in a U-Haul. Coolness is hard to define, but ridiculousness...
...culture of his old neighborhood), to self-reflexive allusions to his own work (a substantial portion of the work on display is a series of graphic constructions featuring photographs and floor plans of another recent retrospective of Prina’s work, which incidentally had the same title he chose to give to the Harvard show...
Asked why he chose improvisational comedy over standup, Thompson explains that “I never did standup before. It just looked like it was really hard, looked like there was like up days and down days—and I’m too emotionally unstable for that. I need to always be funny and always be loved...
...been the question for the council, who gave us the opt-option on the termbill hike last semester and on the initiative to establish student funding for wind power last week. Incidentally, we chose to pass the hike and pass wind, and to be given the chance to opt-out of both of them. Other groups have been doing this opting thing on the sly for some time: Harvard Right to Life (HRL) helps students opt-out of the portion of their student health bills that can be used to pay for abortions at University Health Services...