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...doesn't pretend it's pretty. Representative Tom Davis, a Rove ally who is chairman of the House G.O.P.'s campaign committee, has set off howls by anointing individual candidates in contested primaries across the country. And Rove's minesweepers cleared the Republican field of all but token opposition for Senate candidates Elizabeth Dole in North Carolina, John Thune in South Dakota and Norm Coleman in Minnesota, who is running against incumbent Democrat Paul Wellstone. Rove called Coleman's expected primary rival, Minnesota house majority leader Tim Pawlenty, and asked him to step aside. After Pawlenty turned Rove down, Cheney...
During the 1990s boom, politicians could pretend that the problem was fixing itself. Health-care costs were being held in check. Private employers offered more and better health care to attract workers. The states were becoming more generous and creative in taking care of lower-income working people, who most often fall into the crack between private insurance and public-assistance programs...
...hour, so why not Harvard? Harvard has the most money, so Harvard should pay the most. But PSLM sees the world with tunnel vision. They always leave out that in comparisons to other Boston area schools, Harvard is in the middle of the pack, not the bottom as they pretend...
...were fair or adequate.” It could also be said that whereas janitors know what’s in their own best interests and were perfectly capable of continuing negotiations since their old contract had months still to be completed, by no means should students like Skomarovsky pretend to know what’s in the workers best interests...
...vain, I suppose, as I watch John Henry and that guy who invented “Third Rock from the Sun” pretend they give a damn about the Red Sox. While you were playing Red Rover during halftime of the Penn football game, pants dangling around your ankles, you could have at least tried...