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...hence have nothing to say (words of advice: just make something up). Anyhow, as we’re all playing the fun-fact game, the TF finally looks to me. As I begin my introduction, “Hi, my name is Cather...” I suddenly get cut off by a friend in the class. “No, call her...ha...call her Dirty Cathy...
...this: Hudson's Bay does not make a dime off the phenomenon. Net proceeds from mitten sales go right to the Canadian Olympic Committee to fund athletes' programs. To date, Sherman says the mittens have generated $12 million in net proceeds. Does he regret not negotiating a cut? "Not at all," he says. "We entered into this to do the right thing." What's more, Sherman notes that mitten-mania has increased traffic to the stores, helping boost sales for other items...
...attacks primarily not because it was the appropriate thing to do strategically but because it was something the country could do when something had to be done," military scholar Richard Betts wrote in Foreign Affairs in 2007. Neither Presidents nor lawmakers want to be branded unpatriotic by trying to cut defense spending, a non sequitur if there ever was one. Many lawmakers cloak their advocacy for hometown weapons production in such red, white and blue bunting...
...facilitate "constructive debate," the event itself is a political maneuver. The White House called for it only after Scott Brown's surprise victory in the Massachusetts Senate race destroyed the Democratic supermajority in the Senate needed to break a filibuster. (Before Brown's victory, Democrats seemed poised to cut a final deal to pass a package through the House and Senate...
...appreciation of it just by watching it," she says. "But if you actually get into it and do it, it's rigorous, hard, and takes a lot of training and dedication. As soon as you do it, you're like, 'Wow.' " (The appeal does indeed cut both ways. On Feb. 19, Cheryl Burke, a two-time Dancing champion, tweeted Evan Lysacek, the newly crowned Olympic men's figure-skating champion: "You're truly amazing!! How awesome would it be if you did DWTS? You would be great...