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...different speed settings of the windshield wipers, could make a mean three-point turn, and had even conquered the dreaded parallel-park maneuver. But apparently, the State of New York Department of Motor Vehicles just wasn’t impressed.Permit in hand and Driver’s Ed certificate by my side, I made my first driver’s test appointment in White Plains.“White Plains?! They don’t pass anyone.” I ignored the wise words of my fellow driving-impaired friends, and psyched myself up for the big day.Sure, maybe...
...invasion was going to happen, no matter if every faculty member in the United States had written an op-ed,” Keyssar said...
...waters all over the East Coast this weekend, coming up with mixed results in three regattas.The experienced sailors on the squad headed to Maryland, with the women’s team competing in the St. Mary’s Women’s Regatta and the co-ed team setting sail at the Truxtun Umsted Regatta.The women found success in a very competitive field, with the A division team of junior captain Megan Watson and freshman Meghan Wareham leading the team to a fifth-place finish.The co-ed squad placed ninth out of 20 teams...
...legal battles. (Spitzer extracted at least $5 billion in penalties from financial firms, according to Masters.) In December 2005, former Goldman Sachs chairman John Whitehead, who was then chairing the Lower Manhattan Development Corp., alleged that Spitzer tried to bully him after Whitehead wrote a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed criticizing the attorney general's zealotry: "I will be coming after you," Spitzer allegedly told Whitehead, who said he immediately took notes of the conversation. "You will pay dearly for what you have done." (Spitzer's communications director Darren Dopp, who later left the administration under an ethics cloud, denied...
...many scolds, Spitzer seemed to believe his burning pursuit of right justified any personal failings - his boorishness, the overweening use of his offices and, one presumes, his philandering. "I think he felt he was totally invulnerable and could do whatever he wanted and there would be no consequences," says Ed Koch, a former New York City mayor who considers himself a friend of Spitzer...