Word: insists
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wakened them from their notion of infallibility," says a Bush adviser. Those who have been arguing for what would count in this White House as radical change--fresh faces, shiny plans, a wider exchange of ideas--felt that at last they had some leverage because Bush could no longer insist that everything was working just fine...
...lanterns cover the overhead light to create a rich warm glow. “It’s a bit cheeky,” says Shemtov. “We used some kind of tacky pieces, like a lumberjack lamp.” Most of this, McClure and Pham insist, is the work of Tines and Shemtov, who have masterminded the suite’s decoration. Pham and Shemtov share the one double, which they styled for “the feel of an old men’s club,” Shemtov says. The walls are covered...
...halt. The big question is whether either man can control his own partisans in the House, like Democratic whip David Bonior or Republican Dan Burton, chairman of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, which will look into just about everything labeled Bill and Hillary. If Democrats insist on a full-bore pursuit of Gingrich, Republicans will seek the blood of the Clintons later this year or next. Washington is not so different from ancient Rome. It may talk a lot about ethics, but revenge is the virtue it understands best...
College administrators, however, insist that their interest in a women’s center long predates Summers’ media mess. “I’ve been hearing about this since I became Dean [in 2003],” Gross says. “This has been cooking for a while...
...baked anything in my life, and I don’t think Teddy [Theodore B. Bressman ’06, Team Zebra co-Principal] has either,” the two prepared to fire up the ovens as midnight Monday loomed. Technically, striped success eluded Team Zebra, but they insist that fun was had by all. And that’s what matters—fun, apparently, and pies...