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...Only 10 senators who voted against Gates in 1991 remain in the Senate. And Democratic senators who weren't in the chamber back in 1991 don't seem inclined to dredge up an old dispute. "I've gotten to know him over the last several years," says Jack Reed, an influential Armed Services Committee member. "And he strikes me as someone who's a pragmatist. He strikes me also as somebody who will listen, particularly to the uniformed services. In that respect, he'll be a very pleasant change from Secretary Rumsfeld." -with reporting by Massimo Calabresi
...gets into your head,” Rollins said. “We knew they weren’t make their first shots—they were making their fourth or fifth shots. We played great defense on those first shots, but we could have gotten more done offensively if we had done better on the glass.”Harvard pulled within four at 15-11 on a jumper by Tay with 14:26 to go in the first half. Another Tay jumper put the Crimson down just 26-20, but Cal stormed into the break...
...part is easy for anyone who's given up on the entire enterprise as an ill-considered mess that we never should have gotten into in the first place. The declare-war part is a little harder to argue for. But the fact is, if we're ever going to get fully beyond this passage in our history - and figure out how never to make a similar mistake again - officially declaring a state of war with the sovereign nation of Iraq might be one of the most curative things we can do. After all, it's awfully hard to bring...
...national honor society. “My very first, and worst, grade at Harvard was a C-minus in a rhetoric course freshman year,” said Meyer, a Social Studies concentrator in Winthrop House. “It was the lowest grade I’d ever gotten in my whole life, but it really motivated me.” Meyer was among the 48 seniors notified of their election into the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the Alpha Iota of Massachusetts, last week. Nine of the honored students were economics concentrators—more than twice...
...There was so much sex on the fly that it seemed almost quid pro quo that they would eventually have gotten it for their efforts,” the author writes. The infections had to be hushed up to prevent John Lennon’s then-wife, Cynthia, from filing for divorce and walking away with half of John’s earnings. A team of “tame venereologists” was called in to treat the most influential and arguably most beloved band in history...