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Woodward's book will feed the endless, fruitless speculation among the President's critics about the nature of his certainty, his allergic reaction to doubt or introspection. Is it religious, Oedipal or congenital? No doubt the President gets a kick out of these sorts of mind games. He probably enjoys the secular left's discomfort with his religious references as much as he "enjoyed" going up against the stony Gen eral Assembly (and despite a few awkward moments, he probably had a ball frustrating the reporters who asked him to admit mistakes or make apologies in his recent press conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Bush Really Get Us? | 5/3/2004 | See Source »

...polluted creek, without looking at chat piles, soil, air quality or the danger of subsidence. Was it a lack of knowledge of the danger, as EPA claims? Or industry influence, as environmentalists charge? Whatever the reason, federal attorneys settled with mining companies for pennies on the dollar. Now, after fruitless efforts to contain 28 billion gal. of acid mine water, contamination is spreading across a vast watershed. And although the EPA trucked out toxic dirt from about 2,000 homes and schools, Tar Creek's children still show elevated lead levels at six times the national average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tragedy Of Tar Creek | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

...Woodward's book will feed the endless, fruitless speculation among the President's critics about the nature of his certainty, his allergic reaction to doubt or introspection. Is it religious, Oedipal or congenital? No doubt the President gets a kick out of these sorts of mind games. He probably enjoys the secular left's discomfort with his religious references as much as he "enjoyed" going up against the stony General Assembly (and despite a few awkward moments, he probably had a ball frustrating the reporters who asked him to admit mistakes or make apologies in his recent press conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Bush Really Get Us? | 4/25/2004 | See Source »

...never really done that before,” he sheepishly admits after a few moments of fruitless mental scanning. “It’s not that interesting a subject...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BASEBALL 2004: Pretty Fly for a Shy Guy | 3/25/2004 | See Source »

...After a fruitless search for a senior faculty member, the Department of History of Art and Architecture is moving closer to appointing an assistant professor of Renaissance...

Author: By Ben A. Black, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Search For Art Professor Narrows | 3/2/2004 | See Source »

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