Word: rans
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This year, only one person, Chad A. Wathington '01, ran for the five available council seats from Dunster House. Boni-Saenz thinks this shouldn't happen...
NAME: Kevin ("Silent Bob") Smith OCCUPATION: Sanctimonious director BEST PUNCH: To promote Dogma, Smith's new film, which some Catholics have alleged satirizes religion, the movie's distributor ran ads with the slogan "Get Touched by an Angel...
...resentment born of the suspicion that all along the media were up to their usual tricks, hyping a notional calamity to the max in order to make us buy more copies and tune into TV specials titled The Day the Food Ran Out. Then, too, followers of certain religious sects will no doubt find it puzzling, if not downright disappointing, that the new year didn't begin with a spectacular slapdown between the Antichrist and Godzilla. Of course, preachers can always say the Creator called them on their cell phones at 11:59 p.m. to say Armageddon was being postponed.The...
Bush's TV ads, which have begun airing in New Hampshire, Iowa and South Carolina, showcase McKinnon's fondness for retro black-and-white footage and jittery, MTV-style editing. McKinnon took an unconventional path to his current job: as a teenager, he ran away to Nashville, Tenn., with dreams of becoming a country-music star; he wrote songs under Kris Kristofferson's tutelage and almost had one of his numbers recorded by Elvis Presley. "But Elvis passed away," says McKinnon ruefully. On making the switch from music to politics, he observes, "I turned to show business for ugly people...
...debt going down, they're going up." His point: while the government is no longer borrowing from Social Security, it is still borrowing heavily from trust funds for Medicare, pensions for military and civilian government employees, highway building and other things. Without those nonpublic borrowings, he contended, the government ran a deficit of $127.8 billion last fiscal year, and the debt, including amounts owed by one part of the government to another, is still rising from $5.6 trillion. Other board members conceded that Hollings' numbers were correct but strongly quarreled with his interpretations. Kasich, Munnell and Secretary of the Treasury...