Word: johnson
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...Credit card leaders have powerful friends on Capitol Hill, though, and neither side expects a clean victory. Moderate Democrats and those with major banks with big presences in their states are receiving particular attention from the banking lobby. These include Tom Carper of Delaware and Tim Johnson of South Dakota: Johnson voted against Dodd's bill in committee and Carper is a longtime bank backer...
...which really stuck out,” Flood said. “The defense had a lot of pressure on them all game, and they handled it well.” Pais and Gleason also tallied two ground balls each. The Big Red’s attacking threat, Libby Johnson, was held to only one goal in the match. While Cornell’s offense was stagnant, Harvard managed to tally another three goals to bring the final score to 11-7. Halpern and Martin paired up to score another two goals, while Doherty capped it off for the Crimson...
...assessed in a mere 100 days is a journalistic conceit. Most presidencies evolve too slowly to be judged so quickly. Roosevelt set the initial standard in 1933, overpowering Congress and passing a slew of legislation to confront the Great Depression during his first three months in office. "Lyndon Johnson had two 100-days periods," says historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, "one after the Kennedy assassination and another after he was elected in 1964." Indeed, Johnson's legislative haul dwarfs anything before or since; he quickly got Congress on track to pass landmark civil rights bills and create Medicare, among other things...
With the exception of Johnson's remarkable run, the few successful 100-day sprints have been a triumph of vision over substance. Roosevelt, Reagan and Obama changed the national mood more than anything else - and moods can change back quickly, especially in our overripe, overwired cable-news dystopia. As impressive a start as Obama has had, these 100 days could come to seem an overambitious and naive presage of disaster if the President's financial policies are inadequate to meet the crisis; his budget proposals are gutted by Congress; and his attempts to leave Iraq, fight in Afghanistan and negotiate...
...much pretending. But Harvard women’s basketball’s head coach for 27 years running has a mantra that at once belies and explains her confidence: “Act As If.”A short documentary of that title, written and directed by Melissa Johnson ’00, played last night at the AMC/Loews Boston Common Theater as part of the Boston International Film Festival. The festival began last Friday and runs through this Sunday, April 26. The mantra “act as if,” a hallmark of Delaney-Smith?...