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...more cowardly, just complained to my friends. And really, that was mostly so I could mention the fact that I had a television project. Plus, I was flummoxed by the politics. Confronting her might make her feel so guilty and uncomfortable she would avoid me and thus end our pretend-show business relationship. Or she might compensate by making the show because she felt bad for letting me find out that my script stinks. I was having trouble locating the upside...
...eyes, and without needing Colin Powell to correct anything he had said. The bar was pretty low, not just for Bush but for the whole affair, and aside from some snide remarks Chrétien made about democracy in Haiti - and Chavez's near-total lack of effort to pretend he likes the U.S. - everybody got along fine, and promised to get along even better next time...
...Rove's other overarching goal for 2001 is to have Bush sign a tax cut close enough to his $1.6 billion proposal that he can call it his own. Were the President's arguments and powers of persuasion as strong as he and Rove pretend, his tax bill would be law. But after more than 20 road trips to pressure Senators to support it, Bush was unable to turn a single vote his way. Again, Rove can paint with a broad brush. When Bush came to Washington, no one thought Congress would support such a large...
...data looking for themselves, but clear distinctions were hard to find. So far, the unpublished study has offered us only two kinds of children: those raised at home by their mothers (about 1 in 4 children) and everyone else. Which begs the question that the researchers didn't even pretend to answer: Why would kids who are cared for by anyone other than Mom develop disruptive behaviors, and what should we do about it? For that matter, should we even be worried at all? The researchers noted that almost all the "aggressive" toddlers were well within the range of normal...
...years, the administration’s actions come into clear focus as not simply disrespectful but morally appalling. It is disgusting and terrifying to see our University administration slap our janitors, our guards and our dining hall employees with wage cuts, benefit decreases and union busting—and pretend that these moves are technical adjustments rather than contributions to a social crisis in our community. It is disgusting to see that as Harvard’s endowment reaches astronomical proportions it is matched only by the administration’s ruthlessness in destroying human lives and dignity...