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...that by somehow forging consensus among Obama's strong-willed team of rivals: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Vice President Joe Biden. "We will oversee the strategic implementation of [Obama's] decisions with a finely developed set of metrics," says Jones in the patois peculiar to those who spend 40 years as a leatherneck. Then he adds, "In a collegial...
...introduced into law (the average rate for the past 35 years is about 4.5%). Still, as the 111th convenes on Jan. 6, at least the outgoing class can claim to have excelled at one great congressional tradition: approving a lengthy list of inconsequential, not very discriminating and occasionally downright peculiar Congressional resolutions. In all, the 110th Congress introduced nearly 3,000 resolutions and passed more than...
Shiels' team stumbled on the peculiar practice largely by chance. In 2007, a premed student named Adam Young, then 21, was compiling data during his summer internship at Nationwide. Part of his responsibilities included maintaining a database of patients who had been treated by the hospital's radiology department using Image Guided Foreign Body Removal, a technique that was developed by Shiels during his Army days to help remove foreign objects like shrapnel from soft tissue. Shiels' method was less invasive than surgery, which often requires an incision of 2 to 3 inches and can lead to damage in surrounding...
Barack Obama's candidacy posed a peculiar challenge to the GOP's minuscule African-American membership. For some, it meant weighing a sense of racial pride against loyalty to conservative economic and foreign policy principles. Now, the GOP must decide how it can be relevant to an increasingly diverse electorate, particularly blacks. That will certainly be on the agenda as Michael Steele, the former Maryland lieutenant governor, vies to become the first African American to lead the Republican National Committee. In an interview with TIME last week, Steele acknowledged it will be "very, very tough" to boost black support...
...comprises perhaps the first substantial discography of “outsider” music in the 20th century. His second album, 1967’s “The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death,” is a miracle of acoustic innovation, showcasing peculiar compositions and idiosyncratic arrangements. That album’s bizarre, esoteric liner notes became one of Fahey’s many trademarks. It was Fahey who, in effect, discovered Kottke, when the latter mailed his demo recordings to Fahey’s nascent label, Takoma Records; to this day, Kottke’s debut remains...