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...last year bungee jumping, sky-diving, and white-water rafting—and being stuck in a lecture for an hour may make him want to jump out a window,” the elder Melvoin says. The younger Melvoin, however, is anxious to get back to the daily grind. “I feel like a bum after awhile, so I’m ready to start working,” he says...
Administration officials say they fear that losing even one house of Congress would mean subpoenas and investigations--a taste of the medicine House Republicans gave Bill Clinton. "Everything will grind to a halt," one said. That prediction could be a scare tactic designed to get out the G.O.P. vote. But Democrats say that if they are victorious in November, they plan to force Bush to be more accountable, and they intend to dig through records of contracts in Iraq, for homeland security and for the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Democratic Representative Henry Waxman of California, one of the most dogged...
...quaint? It's true. The world is just so pressured. Look at the generation we're creating, with Survivor and all that stuff. You're supposed to outwit everybody and double-deal. Nine to Five was trying to bring a female sensibility to the corporate world, which can really grind you down to nothing...
...most evident in the unlikely success of ABC’s summer reality show “Dancing With the Stars”—has recently made foxtrot, rumba, and paso doble household names, the most celebrated dance at Harvard remains the slightly less sophisticated drunken grind. Thankfully, some new steps will have a chance to make their inroads on campus at this weekend’s 15th Annual Harvard Invitational Ballroom Competition, hosted by the Harvard Ballroom Dance Team...
...would be very personally unhappy if we allowed our work to grind altogether to a halt,” he added, before introducing Dudley Professor of Stuctural and Economic Geology John Shaw...