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...secure, windowless room on the top floor of the Capitol, nearly three-quarters of the Senators awaited him. They were confronting one of the gravest decisions lawmakers can face--sending troops into battle--and they expected to see the intelligence Rumsfeld and other Bush Administration officials have said would clinch the case that Saddam Hussein must go, the sooner the better. Instead, they got the kind of riff Rumsfeld uses with the Pentagon press corps. "There are three issues here," the Defense Secretary told them. "There is the issue of what we know. There is the issue of what...
...winning groove - a kind of show-business dream sequence where you can't do anything wrong. The choreography was a mutual effort: Hermes Pan, Ginger, even Adele contributed. And of course Ginger was able to accomplish sex through dance. We told more through our movements instead of the big clinch. We did it all in the dance...
While his new audience may be a tad precious, Stanley is anything but. Growing up in the Clinch Mountains of Virginia in the 1930s, he learned the banjo from his mother while his brother Carter took guitar lessons from the mailman. The Stanley Brothers were naturals, and soon they were performing live out of a Bristol, Va., radio station and recording for Columbia. At one point, they were the biggest act in Appalachia not named Bill Monroe...
Cornell’s struggles allowed Harvard to become the quickest team in school history to clinch a share of the Ivy title. The Crimson claimed the outright crown with a victory over Yale and posted comfortable wins over Brown and Dartmouth to close out its Ivy season...
Harvard rode the arm of starter Sheffield for five innings and got solid relief performances from Ronz and junior Barry Wahlberg to clinch a share of the Red Rolfe crown with Brown...