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Panetta's departure leaves an enormous vacuum, and Raines appears eager to take advantage of it. In a White House that churns out micro-initiatives every day, Raines has squelched the Administration's habit of making such announcements without checking whether OMB has sanctioned a plan to pay for them with cuts elsewhere. This month he stepped in to require a more thorough vetting of measures that would tighten food-safety regulations. "There were more people running around with their own little pet projects," says White House spokesman Michael McCurry. "Raines has reined...
Indeed, Harvard has a long-standing habit of down-playing its wealth. This is for good reason: Harvard is filthy rich...
...would disagree that working all night as a regular habit is unhealthy, particularly at a school where personal and academic pressures for certain students are already over-whelming. Anyone who has visited other colleges knows that Harvard is a somewhat sick place: People here work all the time...
Just ask customers like Barbara Stowe, a caterer in suburban Detroit who got out of the Sears habit years ago. Stowe walked into a remodeled store in Livonia, Michigan, to buy a paintbrush last month and left with an outfit for her 16-month-old niece and a renewed faith in the retailer that has since brought her back twice for Christmas gifts. "The clothes, especially for children, have amazed me," says Stowe, 47, a retailer's dream with a list that includes a grandchild and 26 nieces and nephews. "I used to get so frustrated with Sears. They would...
...foreseeable future, of course, most parents will probably continue to blame rock music and comic books, just out of habit. After all, a report a few years ago showing that young people were pretty much oblivious to the words of the songs they listened to had no effect on the fervor of the movement to protect impressionable teenagers from rock lyrics. The traditional homework dialogues between a teenager in his room and a parent at the bottom of the stairs will probably just continue without benefit of musical accompaniment...