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...your typical George W. Bush appointee. For one thing, the 47-year-old volunteered for George McGovern and played guitar in a folk-rock ensemble that favored trippy tunes like A Horse with No Name by America. Unlike Rumsfeld or Powell, he's so soft-spoken, you have to lean in to hear him. When he spouts statistics about family-dissolution rates, you wonder how he found himself in the towel-snapping world...
...These women ate, but only enough to be slim and lean, and their diet consisted mostly of nonfat yogurt, pasta and diet drinks,” she said. “But women who want to have children won’t until they have the proper weight...
...classmate describes him as "burnt out," a lawman involved in his capture noticed no signs of intoxication. "It appeared that he hadn't been drinking," says Washoe County, Nev., Sheriff Dennis Balaam. "I asked him if he was taking any type of medication, and he said no." Some lean toward an organic explanation--emerging schizophrenia, perhaps--for his cosmic goof gone wrong...
...recovery has been "on its way" since at least the beginning of 2001. (They at least have the decency to be constantly "revising" their forecasts.) But Wall Street firms still hire their own economists at big salaries, mainly to give the rest of the company a crystal ball to lean on - and to hide behind when it loses money...
...training room, the doctors, they want the best for me,” Fu said. “They lean towards the conservative and told me just...