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...crutches from his back operation. Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin, remembered now as a dark cloud shadowing America, could show, in private, an unexpected sweetness and charm. Always, front and center (first desk, middle aisle, the Democratic leader's spot) stood Lyndon Johnson, almost handsome then, in his 40s, leaner than history remembers him, narrow-eyed, his hair sleek with Stacomb, alert in a vaguely dangerous way--an impresario, a genius of nuances, a wolf in his prime...
Forget career-switchers - these days the FBI is looking for younger, more technically proficient types. As part of his push to remake the FBI into a leaner, more agile and competitive agency, FBI chief Robert Mueller is trying to move away from the 30-year-old disgruntled former accountants or local police officers that traditionally populate each new class of agents. Instead, he's tilting toward younger specialists with intense knowledge of regions where terrorism flourishes or specialists in high end relational databases, computer security and computer forensics...
Penn sophomore Jewel Clark, who led the Quakers with 16 points, cut the Crimson lead to one with an inside shot through traffic at the one-minute mark. But Cserny answered with a leaner over two Penn defenders to push the lead back to 58-55 with 33 seconds left...
...inability to let go. "It's happened on every Pixar movie," Jobs confesses. It's also what he did when Ive presented him with a plastic model of what was to be the new iMac. It looked like the old iMac on a no-carb diet, a leaner iMac in the Zone. "There was nothing wrong with it," recalls Jobs. "It was fine. Really, it was fine." He hated...
Saturday’s game brought out a different side of this Harvard club. The Crimson’s 50-48 loss to Princeton on Friday—which ended abruptly with a game-tying leaner by junior Sam Winter falling just short—seemed like the furthest thing from the team’s minds...