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...base is junior Cecily Gordon, who has seen quite a bit of playing time in her career despite backing up one of Harvard’s most touted players. In 34 at-bats last season, she had an on base percentage of .351 and should be a force to reckon with this spring. When Gordon isn’t at first, Dell’Aria and Voaklander will move over...
...this may yet come to pass. The Bush Administration remorselessly reminds anyone who will listen that it never promised a quick and easy consummation of its policies. But it has not come to pass yet, and Bush was forced to reckon last week with the reality of the enormous task he has set himself and to acknowledge that it is messier, more daunting and more complicated than he ever imagined. Bush needs help, and he has admitted as much by calling on the U.N. Security Council to pass a new resolution to encourage the flow of more money and armed...
...still get approval of a plan that favors overwhelming force. "Rumsfeld doesn't always know what he wants, but he knows what he doesn't want," a Pentagon official says. "Franks is good at finding him what he wants." Franks explains the give-and-take in the hard-to-reckon Pentagon dialect: "The process of planning is, in fact, a process--it is not a thing... Whatever we do will be executed somewhere in the middle of an ongoing planning activity." (Translation: We're going to be arguing about how to fight this war right up until the moment...
...different China. The hotel mattress felt like it was stuffed with goal posts, the toilet overflowed and the only wildlife in the hotel was tiny, brown and had six legs. "It's supposed to be a communist country, where everybody's equal-like" observes Gazza. "But I reckon things aren't so equal...
...were chosen, amid calls for a novel structure that would be a rejoinder, a memorial, a monument—a symbol and functional buildings and planning strategy. It is far from clear whether either of these proposals will ever be realized; what is apparent is that any plan must reckon with complex, and sometimes contradictory, public feelings about appropriate future uses of the site...