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...Dunder-Mifflin. Rather than giving in to the urge to weep, just look on the bright side: Jim and Pam are finally together (which is all that really matters) and hopefully, a settlement will come soon. 1) Meredith’s Birthday (Season 1, Episode 4) Amidst downsizing rumors, Dwight reaches out to nemesis Jim, and the two form an unlikely “alliance”—which ends when Jim tapes Dwight inside a box. Michael tries (and fails) to boost morale with an ill-timed birthday party and painfully inappropriate jokes about layoffs...
...notion that the cacophony of politics can be replaced with the smooth hum of expertise and that all the challenges our society faces can be solved by making the government run more efficiently has a long and generally laughable history. It is not inherently either liberal or conservative. President Dwight Eisenhower actually did hire McKinsey to redesign the presidency. President Jimmy Carter talked endlessly of "reinventing government." He took the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and turned it into two departments. Then there was Ross Perot, the presidential candidate who babbled about opening the hood...
Then, as now, many Christians saw biblical beliefs as the foundation for law and liberty. "If our religion were gone, our state of society would perish with it," declared Jefferson's chief evangelical critic, Yale president Timothy Dwight. The Jeffersonians bit back. "Now I don't know that John Adams is a hypocrite, or Jefferson a Deist," one wrote, "yet supposing they are, I am of the opinion the last ought to be preferred to the first [because] a secret enemy is worse than an open and avowed...
...without a large base of natural resources. “China has accomplished this miracle in much the same way that previous great powers have risen...which is manufacturing and trade. You don’t necessarily need natural resources to do that,” Frankel said. Dwight H. Perkins, a professor of political economy, said that China’s incredibly rapid growth should not come as a surprise, despite its lack of natural resources. “Countries that tend to be super rich in natural resources tend to be quite poor,” Perkins said...
...towering ceiling last night, her words were interrupted with short, poignant pauses. Fifty years ago last month, Carlotta W. LaNier and eight fellow students became the first blacks to integrated into Central High—a previously all-white Arkansas school—under the order of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and over the fierce objections of the state’s governor. Each day they passed a gauntlet of violent parents and students, and the nine students became symbols of the civil rights movement. Last night, LaNier and her fellow classmates guests of honor spoke before a crowd...