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...tore around the yard climbing trees and building G.I. Joe forts. He carried a Cabbage Patch doll named Sylvester, dressed in matching camo, under his arm. In school, teachers had trouble channeling his enthusiasm into classwork. "He could look at something and fix it. He didn't need a book," says Tomson. "In the military, it's hands on. He was in his element...
...from a $110 million telecommunications company in receivership. But the oceans of capital at private-equity funds mean that companies once left for near dead, like Barry, have more options. In this flush economy, Von Lehman says, "hedge funds just lend these troubled companies money, but they don't fix them. We don't know when that bubble's gonna burst, but they're gonna need us someday." They always...
...mean that the “Pub” inevitably only ever attracts the rowdy late-night drinking crowd, as opposed to the stressed student, (probably under the drinking age), looking for a place to study or relax with friends. Fortunately there’s an easy fix: open its doors during the day, and let it become a common space that also serves alcohol, instead of a space solely aimed at noisy beer-guzzling...
...truly politically expedient position for Republicans would be to criticize the bill (and "amnesty") without offering any alternative. (Tuesday Romney, in an echo of his refusal to offer his opinion on the surge earlier this year, told reporters that he didn't have a direct suggestion for how to fix the legislation: "I'm not in the position to make that call today...
Once all the apologies were spoken, a battered Administration was searching for more tangible ways to repair the damage. Major General Miller has been hustled back to Baghdad to fix the prison system. He promised to halve the number of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and end the practice of hooding captives. But he refused to entirely rule out the use of other tactics, like sleep deprivation and "stress positions," if they were approved by a senior officer. A senior Pentagon official says Rumsfeld has taken a personal interest in coming up with a dollar figure to compensate Iraqis who have...