Word: fleisher
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...could spend $5.2 billion to reduce its energy consumption 20% and recoup the investment in little more than five years. The Energy Department's Lawrence Berkeley lab developed a fluorescent table lamp that matches the output of a 150-W bulb using a quarter of the energy. When Ari Fleisher was asked last week whether the President would be asking citizens to change their lifestyle given that we consume more energy per capita than any other people on the planet, he said, "That...
...Gore did not attend, Clinton did create a special transition commission to help - when all the issues are settled. The Bush team will file with the IRS as a "Texas nonprofit.") Cheney named Austin chief of staff Clay Johnson as executive director of the transition, and campaign spinner Ari Fleisher as its press spokesman. And he hinted that Bush's administration might well include some Democrats...
Bellow's novels have prompted this sort of what's-the-real-story queries before, most notably his Pulitzer prizewinning Humboldt's Gift (1975). In that book, the brilliant but mentally deteriorating poet Von Humboldt Fleisher was widely regarded as a fictional copy of Delmore Schwartz, a friend and onetime mentor to the young Bellow. The author never denied an imaginative connection between Humboldt and Schwartz, but neither did he think it a topic much worth discussing. And he was right. For a quarter-century, untold thousands of people who never heard of Delmore Schwartz have read Humboldt's Gift...