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...voters decide not to boot Davis out of office, it means the G.O.P. will have lost three elections in five years to a man with the personality of lint. If a Republican does beat him, the winner will face a $38 billion deficit, a legislature controlled by ticked-off Democrats and a reelection fight only two years away. The only positive that could come out of this mess is that it might anger California voters enough to back a new petition - one ending the insanity of the recall...
...wanted Conor to look sharp at this wedding--not for his sake, of course, but for mine. I knew my sister-in-law would be on top of things, that her two boys would turn up lint free, with pants creased. I couldn't let her show me up. Conor had to look good so that I would look good...
...whole concept of interviews is bizarre; the point of the thing is for people whose sole purpose is to be judgmental to judge you in a situation in which everything from your posture to the lint you forgot to pick off your jacket lapel is being actively scrutinized. Great eye contact? A perfect 10! Ladies—legs crossed demurely at ankles? 10! Limp handshake? Unfortunate, 8. Cell phone go off? Sorry, back to square...
Monday is uniform day. Stacie K. Persons ’02-’03, an Air Force cadet, has to get up a little earlier than usual. “When you go to bed [before uniform days] you make sure everything’s shined and lint-free,” she says. Monday, Oct. 7, was the day President Bush gave a key speech about military preparedness for a war in Iraq. Because of his speech, that Monday was also the day the Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice organized a 300-person anti-war rally...
FIBERS What looks to the eye like a bit of lint actually may be a forest of clues. Scientists microscopically comb samples for human and animal hair, clothing threads, carpeting and even plant material to identify everything there and perhaps place a suspect at the scene of the crime...