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...Ford spent the next 25 years in the House, maintaining his seat through careful attention to his constituents back home and rising in rank through seniority and his amiable relations with colleagues in both parties. He became known as an "Eisenhower Republican," advocating strong U.S. involvement abroad and governmental fiscal prudence at home. After the Democrats' landslide victory in 1964, Ford was elected House minority leader. "It wasn't as though everybody was wildly enthusiastic about Jerry," explained Representative Charles Goodell of New York. "It was just that most Republicans liked and respected him. He didn't have enemies...
According to his senior yearbook, Wilson served as president of the National Defense Forum at Harvard and rose to the rank of wing commander in ROTC. He also rowed for Adams’ intramural lightweight crew team...
...sets, people pee on him. This combination of veneration by day and urination by night is one of Harvard College’s most pregnant idiosyncrasies. It reveals the startling contrast between the way the world perceives Harvard and the way that we perceive ourselves, and an arrogance more rank than the sewage drenching John Harvard every Saturday night...
...clout the U.S. really has. There's Russia's comeback, fueled by high energy prices, reminding its neighbors that it has capabilities that they do not have. There's North Korea, exploding a nuclear device after being told the U.S. would tolerate no such thing, in what has to rank as one of the most extraordinary pieces of nose thumbing the modern world has seen. In global capital markets, London?on some measures, even Hong Kong?now rivals New York as a business mecca. And perhaps above all, there is the steady shift of economic power from the Atlantic world...
...state. In the map below, each state's score is based on assessments of 12 health determinants, such as child poverty, and six outcomes, such as infant mortality. This year--as in 10 past years--Minnesota is No. 1. The question, the authors ask: Now that you know your rank, what will you do about...