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...coup de grace came last Wednesday after the Washington Post unearthed pro-choice language Miers used in speeches a decade ago. That morning, after Frist told Bush he didn't have the votes to get Miers out of committee--let alone confirmed--the President sent chief of staff Andy Card and other White House officials to the Hill to try to save the nomination. But Kyl and his team fought back, G.O.P. staff members say, and used the Post article to help keep Senators opposed to Miers and to bring at least one other Senator into the undecided camp...
...career. Twenty-three carries, 103 yards, two touchdowns. But Saturday’s record-setting performance was vintage Clifton Dawson, from the 92-yard kickoff return to paydirt to open the second half, to the 32-yard scamper that iced Harvard’s 42-14 victory, to the grace with which he shifted much of the credit from his own shoulders to those of his offensive linemen. Just 98 yards from writing his name into the Crimson record books once more—again supplanting Chris Menick ’00, this time for most rushing yards in school...
Ramsden found her perfect slot at the Grace Institute's mentoring program, where she coaches low-income women on the skills they need to land office jobs: appropriate office behavior, résumé writing and self-presentation. A favorite tutorial she conducted focused on the dos and don'ts of e-mails. Drawing on her own experience, she offered anecdotes of disastrously funny mistakes--like hitting REPLY to a Listserv message, not realizing everyone in the office would read a catty remark about a colleague. "You're teaching these women about relationships in the workplace," Ramsden says...
...into this assignment. She helped create it as a member of the Transition Network (TTN), an organization of retired professional women who help one another explore the next chapters in their lives. Initially, TTN found few volunteer opportunities that matched its members' high-level skills. So it approached the Grace Institute and other worthy charities with proposals for new programs. In return, TTN asked that its members be used in teams--because the women wanted the collegiality of working together...
...character bothered with him at all—surely the money couldn’t be good enough to make up for the tedium? Admittedly, her other option is Jason Schwartzman, in the role of Jeremy. Armed with a wardrobe of stained clothing and the shiniest bob to grace screens since the late ’20s, Jeremy is the prototypical Slacker—Doritos and all. He’s got some funny lines and introduces the novel idea of using a sandwich bag in lieu of a condom, but for the most part, you just want to back...