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...Once in a while, truth breaks through the truthiness. A political boss tells the voters, "We do not talk to you about war debts or wheat or immigration - we appeal to your hearts, not your intelligence." Confronted with Lincoln's quote about not being able to fool all of the people all of the time, the boss snorts, "It's different nowadays. People are bigger suckers." (That got a conspiratorial roar from the opening night Encores! crowd.) Toward the end, Wintergreen lapses into candor when he confides to Throttlebottom the basics of White House governance: "Of course the first four...
...Ford and General Motors rely heavily on full-size SUVs for profits, and sales of those vehicles were softening even before the latest surge in gas prices. "We have some dealers we haven't been able to contact," says Ford spokesman George Pipas, who estimates that 40 Ford and Lincoln-Mercury dealerships in southern Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana were affected by the storm. Katrina forced Nissan to close its assembly plant in Canton, Miss., 211 miles north of New Orleans. When the plant reopened, employees reported they were having a hard time finding enough gas to make the commute, says...
...Performance has come very easily to me over the years,” she says. In Cloud’s first performance—at the tender age of five—she replaced a soloist sick with chickenpox on the hallowed stage of Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center. According to Cloud, “After having jumped across that stage in front of thousands of people, there’s nothing that can really frighten me.”The euphoria of that first performance inspired Cloud to devote herself to rigorous technical training at Ruth Williams Dance...
...scholar of European political thought, Harvard turned to Europe for Michael E. Rosen, who will be joining the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as professor of government on July 1. Currently a fellow and tutor in Lincoln College at Oxford University, Rosen’s work bridges continental philosophy and political theory. He is also interested in analytical political theory and the history of political thought—boosting what is presently a small field in the department, according to Government Chair Nancy L. Rosenblum ’69. “We are in need of senior scholars...
...former recruited athlete and dean’s list student at Middlebury College, Chris Lincoln is the author of “Playing the Game: Inside Athletic Recruiting in the Ivy League” published by Nomad Press...