Word: holderness
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...Eric Holder figured the call could wait. His pager had gone off in the middle of a Washington Wizards game on Jan. 14, 1998. But when a second page came in at 10:18 p.m. with a message marked "Urgent," the then Deputy Attorney General decided to call back. "What's up?" he asked Jackie Bennett, principal deputy to Independent Counsel Ken Starr...
...only recently become more tested. Despite the successes of former Crimson players, such as Ryan Fitzpatrick ’05 and Matt Birk ’98, the more frequent result of shooting for the pros ends in heartbreak. Even for all-time Ivy League rushing record-holder Clifton Dawson ’07, a brief stint proved to be all the spotlight the NFL would give him.Where those before them have failed, the senior duo believes it may have the ability to succeed, but it will have to get going quickly to catch up with its competitors who have...
...front of Clinton has excited a frenzy of speculation and leaking - exactly the kind of thing the no-drama Obama operation did not tolerate during the presidential campaign. And coming amid word that Obama is eyeing an array of former Clinton officials - including former Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder for the top job at Justice - even Democrats began to ask how much change Obama really represents. "What were the last two years all about?" asks one exasperated party strategist. "The restoration of the Clintons...
...having a hard time grasping the importance of becoming the world's fastest kiwi peeler(multiple-record holder Alastair Galpin set that mark this week, stripping and eating the fruit in about 16 seconds) you're not alone. "There can be a snobbishness about record breaking," the book's editor-in-chief, Craig Glenday, told Britain's Sky News. "What may seem pointless to you could be a passion for someone else." For some, record-breaking itself has become a consuming passion. Ashrita Furman, a health-food store manager from Queens, N.Y., has broken more than 200 records. He notched...
...Saturday's meeting of E.U. leaders, some contested Sarkozy's contention that a "fairly detailed common position by Europe" had been found. Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek retorted that the E.U. had given Sarkozy, who will be attending not just as President of France but also as the current holder of the E.U.'s rotating presidency, a "vague mandate" for Washington that reflected "the divergent opinions on the way things should be handled." Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, presumably piqued at the idea of his nation's tradition of bank secrecy being threatened by international finance regulation, pointedly noted...