Word: repped
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...House Democrats reject such arguments. Bush's announcement in September that he was beginning a drawdown was "a study in calculated public deception," Rep. David Obey, the Wisconsin Democrat who heads the House Appropriations Committee, said last week. The pullout of 30,000 troops by next summer will still leave about 140,000 troops in Iraq, the same size force that was there before the 30,000-strong "surge" began earlier this year. "He made clear in that speech that as far as he's concerned," Obey said, "we're going to be there for the next decade...
...Rep. John Murtha, the gruff former Marine and Pennsylvania Democrat who chairs the Appropriations Committee's defense panel, expressed wonderment that anyone would believe what the Pentagon has to say about its coffers running dry. "Because the Pentagon says it, you believe it?" he asked a reporter at a November 20 press conference with Obey. "Go back and look - 'Mission accomplished,' al-Qaeda connection, weapons of mass destruction, on and on and on, and you believe the Pentagon?" He calls the Pentagon's alarmist warnings "Rumsfeld-like," which is perhaps the ultimate insult in Washington today...
...hours from platform 9? at London's King's Cross station, a cluster of students in starry robes, pointed hats and rep ties are learning how plants grow, but it's not botany; they call it "herbology." In an adjacent classroom a boy with a famous lightning-bolt scar brandishes his wand, chants "Numerus Subtracticus!" and conjures the correct answer to a math problem...
...familiar and widely accepted (if with some degree of resignation), there is another strain of brand name promotion slowly establishing itself on Harvard’s campus and on college campuses across the nation. Certain companies are targeting Harvard students by hiring them as “campus reps.” From the marketer’s perspective, college students are not only easy to target, but are among the most lucrative consumer groups—if their loyalty can be retained.The slow but certain saturation of Harvard’s campus with brand names trying to establish themselves...
Adam Coffin, a research analyst for Rep. Jay Kaufman (D-Arlington), said the bill met with little opposition, despite the fact that states lack jurisdiction over foreign policy. It was passed by both houses of the state legislature, with considerable support from community activists and key legislators, Coffin said...