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...position usually occupied by retired co-chairs partying away their senior springs. While that period marked a lull in my involvement, I still had non-recycling roommates to berate and sarcastic quips to mutter at EAC board meetings. Oh, and I had to lead a one-man campaign to rid Kirkland Dining Hall of plastic cups. Instead of shouting “Those are made of dinosaurs’ bones!” I politely asked that the cups be relocated. Sometimes, yelling is the only way to be heard; here, civility paid off, and use declined significantly. Working with...
...Lieberman says leaving the Democratic Party is a "very remote possibility." But even that slight ambiguity - and all his cross-aisle flirtation - has proved more than enough to position Lieberman as the Senate's one-man tipping point. If he were to jump ship, the ensuing shift of power to Republicans would scramble the politics of the war in Iraq, undercut the Democrats' national agenda and potentially weaken their hopes for the White House in 2008. Those stakes are high enough to give Lieberman leverage with both parties no matter how slim the chance of his crossing the aisle. Which...
...That February evening, however, Miyamoto was called upon to do something extraordinary. As he helped unlock the bicycle, a passerby rushed into his one-man koban to tell him that a woman was standing on the nearby train tracks. Miyamoto jogged over to the tracks and escorted the woman back to his police box, as she pulled against him and screamed that she wanted to die. When they made it back to the koban, the woman broke free and ran toward the rail crossing. With a train less than a quarter-mile away, Miyamoto leapt onto the tracks and tried...
...one came on a power play. Only the first two Tiger penalties proved costly, since both came during the second minute of play, leaving Princeton two men down. Harvard spread its players around the Tigers’ net and could afford to move the puck around the Princeton zone until a quality shot opportunity arose.Within 39 seconds, junior forward Mike Taylor found enough space to cross the puck through the defense as Pelle swooped in on the left for a shot that beat Tiger goalie Zane Kalemba inside the left post.With the Crimson now playing with a one-man advantage...
...Rizzoli would not have published Louise Brooks; Lulu Forever, a handsome volume with more than 100 large photos and a warm consideration of her career by Peter Cowie. (Yes, that's the same Peter Cowie who wrote a Janus Films book that I reviewed last Friday. He's a one-man Book of the Week Club...