Word: majority
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...G.O.P. has no ideological box big enough to hold the people Bush has gathered; conservatives of every stripe are pitching in. Lindsey, for example, may be a tax-cutting supply sider, but he spent his time at the Federal Reserve fighting inner-city red lining by major banks. Al Hubbard, a onetime deputy chief of staff to Dan Quayle, pushed for massive deregulation of business during the 1990 recession and now squires kindred spirits to Austin. Fred Steeper, the Republican pollster with the best fingertip feel for independents, is likely to be back for his third George W. campaign, even...
...atelier of Emile Carolus-Duran. Very much the maestro and dandy, Carolus-Duran focused his method on a near monomaniac attention to direct tonal painting, almost the opposite of color-based Impressionism. "Velazquez, Velazquez, Velazquez," he intoned, "ceaselessly study Velazquez." And from that study, Sargent got three of the major traits of his style. The first was a consummate skill in rendering objects and people bathed in space and low light. The second was its apparent straightforwardness--its ability to make a gesture count, to "knock in" the folds of a black dress or the petals of a white rose...
This and two similar incidents in the past few weeks prompted the city's Department of Public Works (DPW) to commence major repairs earlier than schedule...
...Byrds once sang that to everything, there is a season. Well, the season for baseball is fast approaching. With the start of the Major League Baseball season coinciding with our return from Spring Break, it is truly beginning to seem like spring...
...Things are shifting; they're just not shifting fast enough," Buckler said. "Department culture plays a major role in setting juniors to do well at Harvard. I've had a very good experience here...