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...throughout the remainder of the show. Elegantly clad couples in dresses and suits reminiscent of 50s-era film noir strutted to the amplified beats of Method Man and Q-Tip, the crisp purity of the lights effectively evoking what the program called the “simple, clean and classic” characteristic of Hollywood’s early films...
...been deleted from the Pentagon’s version of the transcript. Also deleted by the Pentagon (but, luckily, preserved in Woodward’s transcript, according to the Washington Post) is the following incredible statement from Rumsfeld: “We’re going to have to clean some of this up in the transcript. We’ll give you a—I mean you just said Bandar and I didn’t agree with that so we’re going to have to—I don’t want...
...like this. In 1980, Congress passed the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act--commonly known as the Superfund law--one of the boldest environmental statutes in U.S. history. It was a law designed to fit all circumstances. It covered existing plants whose owners could be forced to clean up their dumps. It covered polluted sites long since abandoned by their owners: defunct factories, refineries and mines. Even when companies followed the standard, if dubious, practices of the day--dumping toxic waste in rivers, burying it in leaky drums or just leaving it, as in Oklahoma, to blow...
...flexible. Federal standards are "rigid and extreme," says Michael Steinberg of the Superfund Settlements Project, an industry group that includes General Electric, DuPont and IBM. "Groundwater must meet standards for tap water, even though at many of these sites no one drinks it. Soil at many sites must be clean enough so people could play in it. The costs exceed the benefits...
...clean sweep, Coach Barnaby's varsity netmen had little trouble in taking their match against a Fort Devens team yesterday at the Divinity Field courts by a score...