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...Congress are keeping their distance from the report. Critics of the war obviously liked the report's stark portrayal of the deteriorating situation in Iraq and its blunt assessment of failed Bush Administration policies there. But while seeking to "pivot off that to put it squarely back in the lap of the President to propose a way forward in Iraq," in the words of one senior Democratic aide, "there's definitely a sense of wariness up here on Capitol Hill...
...Bonpoint creative studio on Wednesdays, when French schoolchildren have the day off. Like all Paris fashion houses, Bonpoint has a roster of "house models" who are paid (in pains au chocolat and clothing vouchers) to do fittings. First there's a story, maybe a moment on someone's lap, and if ever there are tears or fussing, the fitting is called...
...lively dance beat, at which point headphone-sporting students cheered and ran down the streets dancing, receiving directions on where to go over their headphones. The dancers got it on everywhere from the John Harvard statue (one student started dancing on the Puritan’s lap) to the steps of the Lampoon, finishing up in front of the WHRB station. “It’s even better than it was two years ago, [it’s the] most inclusive party on campus,” says Grace C. Wilentz ’07. Many non-Harvard...
...protrusion of a soft sail, a furred white triangle—what that same observer would with private amusement (and a mental note to repeat at the first available social occasion) remark as the dog-eared appearance of a dog’s ear—from the lap-held purse of the same esteemed professor, who herself is just now remarking how much the first tuning exertions of an orchestra—seeking A—recall the agitation of a fly rising midsummer to the occasion of a pane of clear glass, but who has also not failed...
...well as a record 11 world titles; in an announcement to a stunned press corps in Sydney. Nicknamed the Thorpedo, he explained that, though still at the top of his game, he had met his swimming goals and wanted to begin the rest of his life. "You can swim lap after lap, staring at a black line, and all of a sudden you look up and see what's around," he said. "That's what it feels like...