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...perfect penalty kill and continued contributions from the Class of 2007 powered Harvard’s 3-0 victory on Friday...
Penn first-team All-Ivy guard Jeff Schiffner rebounded from a 1-8 first-half performance—including 1-5 from three-point range—with a perfect second half, hitting all four of his shots from the floor—two from behind the arc—and making both of his free throws to finish with 15 points...
Democrats are also deeply suspicious that, as Election Day nears, Republicans might try to force a vote on the amendment bill, even a vote that they know they will lose, as a way to put pressure on congressional Democrats in tight races. A perfect date might be just before the Democratic National Convention, scheduled to start July 26 in gay-friendly Boston. But an amendment vote could hurt Republicans as well. The party's pollsters show that nearly two-thirds of Americans oppose gay marriage in principle, but are evenly split on the wisdom of a constitutional amendment. It tells...
Here's what a really smart Democratic contender could say to the President this fall: "Thank you, Mr. President, for your leadership in difficult times. You made some tough decisions, and we are safer as a result. But the very qualities that made you a perfect pick for the war so far are the very ones that make you less effective from now on. You are too polarizing a figure to bring real peace to Iraq. You are too unpopular overseas to allow European governments to cooperate fully in the attempt to hunt down terrorists. And your deep unpopularity...
...CEOs perform tasks, they never really experience work--the pressure to meet quotas, the fear of layoffs, the need to laugh at the boss's jokes--because they ultimately hold the power. (It's as if the players on Survivor had the power to fire Jeff Probst.) In a perfect world, Now Who's Boss? might have made its Warbuckses go undercover Ehrenreich-style and live on the wages they pay. Instead, it answers its own title's question: The boss is the boss, even when bumbling a drink order or elbow deep in cleanser, and don't you forget...