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...speech was also classic Bush in its raw chutzpah. The man who could oppose a Homeland Security Department and then crush the Democrats in 2002 for their support of a more Union-friendly version of the same department knows his flips from his flops. The tender concern for prisoners on death row? Bush approved 152 executions in Texas and as The Atlantic pointed out so vividly, 57 of them were based on shabby "execution summary" memos written by his counsel, Alberto Gonzales. As Alan Berlow, who wrote the piece, noted, in the case of Terry Washington, "a brain-damaged...
...Mariucci Classic, [the power play] was bad, and then in the Colgate game, it was horrible,” Welch said, explaining the first three games, in which Harvard converted just one of 12 chances...
...season opener showcased the talent of a young but skilled squad. Sophomore Nordic women’s captain Jenna Harlow, the only returning veteran for the cross-country women’s team, took a surprising 24th in the 5K Classic with a time of 18:28.0, the top-30 finish good for NCAA points. Harlow also took 36th in the 5K Pursuit with a time...
Russia runs more than 100 known spies under official cover in the U.S., senior U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement officials say. And those are just the more easily spotted spies working under the classic guise of diplomat. An unknown number of so-called NOCs--who work under nonofficial cover as businessmen and -women, journalists or academics--undoubtedly expand the Russian spy force. "They're baaaaack," says a former senior U.S. intelligence official who worked against Moscow during the cold war. "They're busy as hell, but I don't think we've really got what it is that they...
...Kafka lacks the narrative consistency of Norwegian Wood and the noirish menace of his 1989 classic A Wild Sheep Chase. But what a tale! You never know when the cats will talk, the sky will rain sardines or yet another show-stopping character will step forward. In a Web poll of Japanese readers, most respondents said that if Kafka were dramatized, they would want to play Oshima, the librarian's impressively literate, transsexual assistant. Others preferred Hoshino, the earthy truck driver who helps the cat-talking old man in his quest to find a magic stone that can free...