Word: fixes
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...power of two. Even if their act was dutiful, evanescent and faked for the cameras, party regulars seemed to eat it up. It was all there: the visionary and the technician, the candidate who could inspire the masses and the candidate who could get under the sink and fix the plumbing...
...Newman-Plotnick ’11 said. “But I e-mailed the Expos office, and the next day I sectioned fine.” FAS IT staffers and technicians from MGE were called in Friday night to remedy the disruption, and 25 staffers worked to fix the problem—some until 5 a.m. Saturday—according to Levine. —Staff writer Alissa M. D’Gama can be reached at adgama@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Clifford M. Marks can be reached at cmarks@fas.harvard.edu...
...Indian government has encouraged more people to donate, and a few years ago began a campaign to increase the rate of cornea donations to try to fix the country's huge problems with blindness. But despite some success - the high-profile cricketer Anil Kumble and Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai both promised to donate their eyes when they die - a 2003 study in the Indian Journal of Opthamology found that illiteracy and rural residence (read poverty) meant that only half of those persons interviewed "had knowledge of eye donation, 20% knew about corneal transplantation and only 4.34% of them knew when...
...plane couldn't land in Changsha and was forced to divert to Wuhan, 180 miles away. Wen arrived in the capital by train.) "I'm very sorry that you are stranded and not able to go home earlier," Wen told the throng. "We are doing our best to fix things so that you will all be home...
Except political reality. Bush promises to veto any bill that doesn't provide immunity, and Republicans would love to prolong the fight. That leaves Democrats scrambling for a way out. One fix would be to say they changed their minds after seeing secret documents on the eavesdropping program the White House made available to select House members for the first time this week. A more palatable solution emerged midweek: extending last August's stopgap Protect America Act, which would allow them to duck the immunity issue until after the election this fall, when the Dems could have the same painful...