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...their marriage was over at a press conference. Loyalty, an attractive virtue in friendship, is an alarming one in politics, when faithful cronies are promoted in public service simply because they show fealty to the boss. 'Twas ever thus, of course. But with the ghosts of Alberto Gonzales and Harriet Miers still rattling around loudly in Washington, Americans have learned what can happen when a President places too much faith in those who have served him - and only him - for years, and then puts them in pivotal positions of law enforcement...
...passion for horses and want to be more deeply involved with friends and family in the spectacle of thoroughbred racing. "It's amazing how quickly the bond develops between a group of grown adults whose only common interest is that they own a piece of horse flesh," says Harriet Rochester, a former British racing official who runs a syndicate...
...League loss of the season, 2-1, against Yale (7-5, 2-2) at Johnson Field in New Haven, Conn., on Saturday afternoon. The Crimson’s defeat came in double overtime after 95 minutes of fierce play. The deciding goal was scored when Yale’s Harriet Thayer passed the ball to Cat Lindroth, who deflected the ball into the back of the net for her second overtime winner of the season. Her first came last week when she knocked in a double-overtime score against Dartmouth. Harvard freshman Maggie McVeigh scored the game?...
...attempt to toe the line between invisibility and scandal. “Slaves in the Attic” discusses the coupling of the abolitionist movement with the suffrage movement. Ulrich’s originality is most evident in her portrait of “the four Harriets,” figures who reveal society’s varying levels of awareness of acts of female bravery. She demonstrates that courageous women can become as prominent as Harriet Tubman, but can equally remain as obscure as Harriet Jacobs, a slave who hid for seven years in her grandmother?...
...such statements of principle, however, some Democrats have complained that Specter is more talk than action; when push comes to shove he'll toe the party line. Specter disputes this, pointing to his willingness to subpoena Bush's top political aide Karl Rove and former White House Counsel Harriet Miers over the firing of U.S. Attorneys last year. Bush invoked executive privilege and neither of the two appeared before the committee. Specter has suggested the Senate could hold a special contempt trial if the executive privilege standoff continues...