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...tried to explain the remark as a reference to Bush's concerns about any future deals with North Korea, even though he used the present tense. Hence the "that's how the President speaks" remark, implying that he characteristically uses the present tense to refer to the future - a formula in which "I'll do it now" presumably means the same thing as "It can wait till tomorrow...
...West Wing. The true culprit may be an overly cautious development process. "Networks give writers development deals and then interfere with development," says Larry David, co-creator of Seinfeld, who last fall debuted the discomfitingly funny, semi-improvisational Curb Your Enthusiasm on HBO. "Ultimately, anything not in their formula scares them." That formula--set-up, joke, canned laughter, repeat--might as well be encoded...
...used on superspeedways, and they actually increase the threat of accident by bunching cars tightly together. The safety improvements she suggests, such as soft-wall technology or the Hans device, are impractical for stock car racing; stock cars are heavier and require more in-cockpit freedom of movement than Formula One cars...
...Over the years, applications soared, and a series of increasingly bitter fights began over who would get the increasingly precious slots, especially at the university's flagship schools, Berkeley and UCLA. During the late '80s and early '90s, Berkeley admitted half of its freshman class purely by a numerical formula in which SAT scores were the most important element. Because of the substantial gap among the races on the SAT, the schools could maintain a substantial minority presence only by explicitly setting test scores aside - which led to a revolt, culminating in a successful state ballot initiative against affirmative action...
...Monday, the anticipation - and the low expectations that are clearly part of Bush's formula. Tuesday, the payoff, a long, funny, aw-shucks tour de force that actually sounded like Bush could have written it himself (unlike that beautiful but somewhat ill-fitting inaugural). Wednesday morning, the budget hit Congress and the speech reviews hit the papers; Bush's approval ratings, and the approval ratings for the tax cut, went up among the largely Republican viewers. Thursday, the budget was the major papers' top story of choice, and in the House, Republicans sprinted forward with the tax-cut ball...