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...rollout was designed to exert maximum pressure on the White House because, despite all the fanfare, the report was aimed at an audience of one--Bush. For most of the week, he looked none too pleased about the round-the-clock talking-to he was getting. As he received the report, he told cameras it was "interesting." Later he said it has "some very good ideas." But within a day, he was putting some distance between himself and the best seller: "I don't think Jim Baker and Lee Hamilton expect us to accept every recommendation...
...page supplement devoted entirely to postering mandates that signs placed on the “free-standing” kiosks in the Yard be no larger than 8.5 by 11 inches—and, for the tricksters considering three-dimensional construction, that there be a “maximum total surface area” of 93.5 square inches. Different dimensional requirements are dictated for other sites, further increasing the complexity of the rules.Still, the Commission does not concern itself with every last nuance, Allen stressing that it is the “spirit of the rules, not the rules themselves?...
Resources outside are even more limited. Milwaukee has 160 halfway beds for recently released inmates, but those beds are so in demand that a parolee can stay a maximum of just 90 days. "Ideally we'd have five to 10 times the number of beds we do, and we could tailor the stay for each ex-offender," says Steve Swigart, whose nonprofit Wisconsin Community Services runs such facilities. Often the alternative is sleeping on a drug-house sofa or rejoining a gang simply for a place to bunk...
...idea right now is to maintain maximum pressure from a lot of places because this is an issue that will not go away for student groups,” he said...
...potential detail is left unrevealed—from manager Brian Epstein’s hat size (7 and 3/8) to the fact that George Harrison “reposition[ed] [his] furniture for maximum sunlight and serenity” after becoming Ravi Shankar’s disciple in India...