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...mail, now part of a wide-ranging federal investigation into lobbying practices and lobbyists' relationships with members of Congress, offers a window into Abramoff's willingness to trade on ties to the White House and to invoke Bush's name to impress clients who were spending tens of millions of dollars on Abramoff's advice...
...musicians-who all play their instruments by ear-have eight minutes to impress the eight judges seated in the main Grand Stand. The "engine room," or rhythm section of each steel band, includes at least one conventional drum kit, tumba drums, maracas and "irons"-scrapped car-brake drums hit with metal rods. The engine room sets the tempo, the panmen follow, thumping and reverberating, and the North Stand, a rather rickety structure of standing-room-only bleachers erected especially for the competition, explodes with energy-the wooden planks bow precariously as they're rhythmically pounded in unison by the feet...
...with friends and neighbors while picnicking on pelau (a rice and peas mixture), macaroni pie, souse (a spicy soup made from either pigs' or chickens' feet), jerk chicken and plenty of local beer and rum drinks. The musicians - who all play their instruments by ear - have eight minutes to impress the eight judges seated in the main Grand Stand. The "engine room," or rhythm section of each steel band, includes at least one conventional drum kit, tumba drums, maracas and "irons" - scrapped car-brake drums Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity...
...Norton Anthology has also steered clear of academic one-upmanship, Greenblatt said. No other anthology has been able to compete commercially with the Norton, he said, in part because competitors have tended to focus on “a very highfalutin text in which professors were trying to impress other professors.” After collaborating with Abrams on the past two editions of the Norton, Greenblatt is now assuming the full editorship. Abrams said that Greenblatt, who is also the editor of “The Norton Shakespeare,” was the obvious choice as the next editor...
...conference schedule, having been dominated in blowout road losses to physical Boston College and Southern Methodist teams.The Crimson will not face nearly as imposing a presence in the Big Green, which sits with Princeton at the bottom of the league standings.The major challenge for Harvard will instead be to impress upon the team’s newcomers the heightened importance of each Ivy game, which leads to intense competition. “It’s hard for all the freshmen to understand—we all had conference tournaments in high school,” first-year forward Evan...