Word: confirmed
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...gutsy thing to do--to make fun of your own image--because it could misfire horribly or, worse, confirm everyone's suspicions about you. But of all the traits needed for stardom, the one Winslet really radiates is confidence. With few exceptions (there was a short-lived marriage, before her current one to director Sam Mendes), she knows what she wants and how to get it. And as she put it, "I don't do anything by halves." Her coffee is taken very hot and strong, her unfiltered cigarettes rolled by herself--although, she says, she only smokes during interviews...
...doing,” Anene said. “We’re going to fund the shuttles this year and have vigorous negotiations with the President’s office to follow.” When reached last night, University spokesman John Longbrake said he could not confirm the change in funding. Harvard Fun Czar John T. Drake ’06, whose Office of Student Activities is planning Harvard-Yale festivities, said he agreed that the UC should pay for the increased shuttle services because of the high costs of The Game. “With the tailgate...
...entire process that led up to this year’s tailgate is disheartening for me and, I hope, for every other Harvard student who gives a whit about this school and its reputation. The new restrictions essentially confirm what Harvard detractors have been saying for years and are just one more way for the school to look unfriendly and unaccommodating to current and potential students. I pray that I am wrong, but I predict that Saturday will see the first step in the long-term decline of the Harvard-Yale game, or at least the half of it that...
While I am among those disgusted with the conduct of the past few Congresses, as a Republican and a conservative I do hope that the party can clean house quickly and get back to doing its job. The recent scandals over earmarks, pork, budget deficits, and runaway spending only confirm the importance of reducing the size of government so that there are less spoils over which to fight in the first place. It is for this precise reason that conservatives have supported the Republican Party in the past, and why conservatives must hope for its recovery now. There are, however...
...figure out Beltway’s true identity. There are only two neighborhoods that are, as Wilson and Taub say, sandwiched between Midway Airport and the city limits, and only one matches the demographics outlined in the book. (In an e-mail, Wilson said that he could not confirm the identities of the neighborhoods...