Word: jon
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...banks and car companies, but what about Portland's Oregon Ballet Theatre? OBT's 20th anniversary season is around the corner, but its budget has dropped 28%. It's hard to celebrate in style when faced with a "very serious cash crunch," says executive director Jon Ulsh. And it's forcing arts groups to be ever more creative about where and how they look for support...
...reversed because, according to a CBS spokesman, "His presence is always felt here ... nobody wants to let him go," which begs the question of why, in 1981, during the absolute prime of, Dan Rather was forced down America's throats as the twitchy replacement for • replacement of by Jon Stewart as America's most trusted newscaster • 2002 opinion about the Bush Doctrine - "I think it is about as dangerous a foreign policy as a nation could adopt" - was unfortunately kept to self...
...Republicans and answered by in as unrevealing a manner as possible with endless blather about "fidelity to the law," while Senators find themselves endlessly repeating umpiring metaphor to, and surely you think that's already way more than you want to hear about this, but wait, here's Jon Stewart's take...
...your story on Barack Obama's plan for health-care reform [June 29]: I am embarrassed that my Senators, Jon Kyl and John McCain, are fighting so hard to maintain the status quo on health care and health insurance. Their employer, the U.S. government, is the single payer in their system, but if the rest of us were to get exactly the same coverage, it would be--gasp!--Socialized Medicine. I have to assume these gentlemen have no idea what it would cost to replace their coverage, given their ages and pre-existing conditions, in the free market they admire...
...findings bear out, they may herald a potential new treatment for an age-old condition. As psychiatric symptoms go, hair-pulling is among the earliest recorded. According to Dr. Jon Grant, a trichotillomania expert at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine and the lead author of the new paper, Hippocrates himself said that in order to test whether patients were faking their illness, doctors must ask whether they are pulling out their hair. The behavior is so commonly associated with distress that the stock phrase to describe a stressful situation is that it causes you to tear your hair...