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...just amazed me the poise he had, the ability to maintain a lid on a room that could have blown up," says Michael H. Pine '95, a Hillel official and friend of Bragg's who was at the discussion...
...Israeli, I know that the citizens of Oklahoma City are going through. I've been there: in Tel Aviv, when the bus exploded; in Beit Lid, just outside my hometown, where families and friends were torn apart by terrorist attacks. I also know how the lives of Americans will now be different. America used to be the place where I could go for respite from such tensions. No longer...
That puts the G.O.P. in a major quandary. Putting a lid on Medicare and its $90 billion sister program, Medicaid, represents the Republicans' best hope for achieving much of the $1.4 trillion in savings they must find if they are to balance the budget and pay for tax cuts. But over their April recess, G.O.P. polls began showing that people are just as protective of Medicare as they are of Social Security...
...that [New Yorker Poetry Editor] Alice Quinn took that poem when she did. To my knowledge, there had never been a poem like that in the magazine, that dealt so explicitly with what was then considered a gay experience. That was an extraordinary fact. Now, with Tina Brown, the lid is very much off and there's no measure of censorship...
...tales to support their antigovernment agenda. Environmentalists have been sounding the alarm about such so-called horror stories for years, but tragically, these spurious accounts are being recycled into policymaking, and in some cases the falsehoods are retold even after the truth is known. Thank you for blowing the lid...