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...Summers’ advisers feared that the tapes, or even the text, would escalate the already burgeoning controversy surrounding the president, two of the sources said. If Summers’ critics and the media could quote direct passages from the speech, his advisers figured, then the uproar might never subside...
...international team of scientists think they've solved the mystery. Comparing changes in annual temperatures with the number of frog species spotted, they've documented for the first time a direct correlation between global warming and the extinction of about two-thirds of the 110 known species of harlequin frog...
However inviting that pork may be as a rhetorical target, though, earmarks give House members a chance to direct money to particular interests, and it's unlikely that they will want to give up that power. So in the warrens of the Capitol, Republicans debate how they can project change while keeping things much the same. The big totals on future spreadsheets depend...
...direct it? To be in control. "That's a good motivation right there, to satisfy one's lust for creative control," he says. And he adds jokingly, "As the director, I also had a part that might appeal to a very expensive actor so much that he might work for almost nothing"?and in the bargain, give an eloquently terse reading of a man's man, driven by urges that are too deep to be expressed in tears or shouts but are visible on Jones' face?if you watch him as closely as he watches the world...
...this semester? I’ll leave the final word on their decision to The Crimson Staff of 1930: “Colleges were founded to broaden the young man before he enters on his specialized life work. Thus men who concentrate in Economics to obtain direct preparation for business are under a necessarily narrowing influence and miss what college is supposed to give them...