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...There are two ways to read the White House's insistence: Option one: Bush is legitimately concerned about streamlining efforts to make the HSD a lean, mean security machine. Option two: The White House and GOP leaders are terrified by the prospect of thousands more unionized workers in Washington - most of whom would, out of necessity, vote Democratic. So where does the true line of reasoning lie? Probably somewhere right down the middle...
...draw of his legend to revive their flagging fortunes, the tourist authorities have inaugurated a series of Lawrence theme tours that follow in the footsteps of the man portrayed with equal measures of gusto and effeminate charm by Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia, the classic 1962 David Lean film...
...wants the Dutch to realize they have for too long been living beyond their means. Tensions within the coalition are as likely to surface over the new austerity budget as over the immigration issue. The government wants to throttle back wage hikes even as the cost of living rises. Lean years are usually good for populist parties - as long as they're not in power. But the LPF has already seen its support crumble now that it has embarked on the parlous business of coalition government. The challenge for the LPF, and the government that needs its support, will...
...schoolgirl red curls. "O.K., these came from me, but in every other way, she is a patch off her father." Indeed, the two were so stunningly similar in physique and temperament that her father's friends find it a little spooky to be in her presence. Both were lean and lanky with broad shoulders built for the butterfly stroke; and both whip-smart but very tightly wound. Though students couldn't enter the science fair until the sixth grade, George and Hilary had spent the past year scouring the Internet for the perfect project. "For a lot of years...
...only child of Chinese immigrants. He spends all his spare time working at his family's ramshackle hotel on the New Jersey shore. The summer guests are "Bennys"?crude young Italians from New York City who vomit in the hallways and copulate in the pool. In the lean winter months, the family rents rooms to hookers and their clients. Lin's unnamed narrator mans the front desk at night and cleans the mattresses, giving him plenty of impetus to do what 12-year-old boys do: wonder, fantasize and wait impatiently for his own turn...