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...between stuffing your face with turkey and listening to your aunt tell you how proud she is that you go to Harvard, take advantage of Thanksgiving Break to stock up on two of the most precious commodities for a Harvard student—winter clothes and sleep...
...more interested in destroying the opposition and gaining power than in the public weal. The philosophically supple party that existed as recently as George H.W. Bush's presidency has been obliterated. The party's putative intellectuals - people like the Weekly Standard's William Kristol - are prosaic tacticians who make precious few substantive arguments but oppose health-care reform mostly because passage would help Barack Obama's political prospects. In 1993, when the Clintons tried health-care reform, the Republican John Chafee offered a creative (in fact, superior) alternative - which Kristol quashed with his famous "Don't Help Clinton...
USAGE: "Precycling is being thoughtful at the point of purchase in addition to at the point of throwing out. [It] saves precious natural resources, helps with greenhouse gas reduction and can save you money." --Minneapolis Star Tribune...
...Paul continued to play weekly gigs at Iridium well into his 90s, until shortly before his death, putting the final touches, grace notes, on the edifice of his achievement. Each Monday evening, two legends would fill that tiny stage: a living legend, Les Paul, and the precious memory of his partner. One night he closed a set with the plaintive ballad "Just One More Chance." He was playing it, he said, "in remembrance of my partner Mary...
...Postcard: Bristol Bay," Bryan Walsh points out that if the Pebble Mine is built, it will produce billions in precious-metal wealth and create needed jobs [July 27]. But at what cost? Experts say it will foul the air and water and hurt salmon runs, among other atrocities. And the benefits will be exhausted within 50 years. I'm all for a sustainable resource like fish, which will bring jobs and provide profits for many more years to come. Also, there's great potential to earn cash through things like solar cells, especially in the land of the midnight...